Anything better than a 1:50 for day rides?

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Shack

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Hi all I've been scouring around for different, or better maps for day rides and looking through my big box of maps (ranging from car oriented 1 map for the whole country, down to small area specific sustrans maps) and I can find anything that gives me enough detail to explore off piste a little but still have the breadth of detail and cover enough area.
Am I missing something obvious?
I use 1:25 for walking and tend to use the os adventure range (the laminated ones) but they are pretty bulky esp if you have/ need a couple for the ride (see attached from last week)
Maybe I've hit gold already? What do folks use/ think?
 

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Dan77

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Komoot.

Join the 21st century :laugh:
 
I plot on 1:25,000 on Memory Map.
I print out 1:50,000 of the roue to take with me I.C.O.N.
If I plot accurately my Etrex gives decent TBT and I seldom need to refer to printed out maps.
The secret, as ever, is in the preparation.
 

roubaixtuesday

self serving virtue signaller
Goldeneye do a series of 1:100,000 but only for a very limited number of areas of the country.

I use the Peak District and Dales ones, they are excellent.

https://www.goldeneyeguides.co.uk/cycling-country-lanes
 
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Shack

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Thanks for the link, I've already got and used the Cornish one, unfortunately much if Devon although beautiful wouldn't create enough sales to warrant production
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
I plot on 1:25,000 on Memory Map.
I print out 1:50,000 of the roue to take with me I.C.O.N.
If I plot accurately my Etrex gives decent TBT and I seldom need to refer to printed out maps.
The secret, as ever, is in the preparation.
I have all of GB on MM at 1:250,000, 1:50,000, 1:25,000 and 1:10,000 scales. By the wonders of modern technology, all of that fits into a fraction of the SD card on my phone. If I want to consult a map when I am out, I just take a look at the phone.

I normally plan exactly where I am going beforehand and generate a GPX file which I upload to my Garmin device. I was out on a walk recently though and decided not to walk up a slope only to come down the other side again a few hundred metres later, when there appeared to be a perfectly good path following the contour line round the hillside. A glance at MM confirmed that to be the case so we took the diversion.

Sounds like you *might* be going Off Road?
If so, the 1:50k maps aren't too bad.
If road only, 1:100k is much better (if you can find one... )
I don't agree with you there, unless you are sticking to main roads, and easy-to-follow offroad routes... :okay:

1:100,000 wouldn't give you much detail of networks of tiny lanes, whereas 1:50,000 is perfect for that. 1:25,000 is too detailed for road use.

Similarly, 1:50,000 is not detailed enough for serious offroad use, whereas 1:25,000 is perfect.

In cities and towns, the 1:10,000 comes into its own. The version I have is not quite perfect in that a few roads are not labelled but I can see how they all join together.
 

Ming the Merciless

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The road atlas you can get in most garages work pretty well if it’s on road. Plan your day ride on them, rip out the pages you want, write down a list of villages and / or towns in sequence you want to pass through them. Use high lighter pen on page ripped out. If you want.
 

Drago

Legendary Member
Sign up as a search and rescue volunteer and Viewranger will give you free acdess to the UK a for your phone at 1:25000. Advance to Search Manager level and Mapyx will do the same, but at 1:10000, which is truly superb. These are the tools I use, albeit on my tablet.

You can get mastermap at 1:1250, but thats a bit excessive.
 
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