Before the days of sat nav.....

[stephec]

Actually it was The Spotgate Inn at Hildestone

That looks like a nice place, we're going to be passing there next week so you've tempted me now.

It must have been a while ago if you were living up this way?

 

[Sara_H]

I'll admit I'm useless at reading maps.
When I was first divorced I thought I'd never be able to go anywhere again due to my poor navigational skills.
I bought a satnav and used it to navigate myself all the way to a campsite near Paris where me and my son had the best holiday ever!
Would never have done that without the satnav.

 

[ColinJ]

Ordnance Survey are now giving you the best of both worlds!

I was on the OS website today and discovered that if you buy a paper Explorer map, you also get a code to let you download a digital version for your smartphone or tablet, and they provide a navigation app to use the digital maps.

At the moment all the GB Explorer maps are covered. GB Landranger maps will follow suit in Feb 2016.

LINK.

 

[Fnaar]

SatNav is made for people like me. I get lost in supermarket carparks.
Contrary to the usual "blokes good at navigating, women terrible at it" scenario, Mrs Fnaar is brilliant at it, and I have come to rely on her for telling me where to drive, when we're going anywhere. I am terrible. However, on a bicycle, I am better (it all happens at a lower speed). Though on a recent cycling tour, I did take a wrong turn, which added 20 miles to my journey, by the time I'd realised.

 

[welsh dragon]

We have a load of paper maps most of which are about 15 years out of date. They were always a source of arguments between Mr WD and me, as I can't read a map and many unhappy journeys were had. Thank god for sat navs as far as I'm concerned

 

[summerdays]

SatNav is made for people like me. I get lost in supermarket carparks.
Contrary to the usual "blokes good at navigating, women terrible at it" scenario, Mrs Fnaar is brilliant at it, and I have come to rely on her for telling me where to drive, when we're going anywhere. I am terrible. However, on a bicycle, I am better (it all happens at a lower speed). Though on a recent cycling tour, I did take a wrong turn, which added 20 miles to my journey, by the time I'd realised.

I'm way better than Mr Summerdays, so much so that when I do make mistakes he doesn't realise, and I just navigate my way back to where we should be I seldom let on!

 

[stephec]

The

We have a load of paper maps most of which are about 15 years out of date.

Yeah but round your way........blah blah blah.

 

[ColinJ]

I might as well also mention that Memory Map have a stupidly good special offer on at the moment. You can download a digital Landranger map of all of Great Britain for only £50! The app to use it is free and available for iOS, Android and Windows. It is what I use to plot the routes for all of my forum rides. Memory Map SHOP.

 

[slowmotion]

SatNav is made for people like me. I get lost in supermarket carparks.
Contrary to the usual "blokes good at navigating, women terrible at it" scenario, Mrs Fnaar is brilliant at it, and I have come to rely on her for telling me where to drive, when we're going anywhere. I am terrible. However, on a bicycle, I am better (it all happens at a lower speed). Though on a recent cycling tour, I did take a wrong turn, which added 20 miles to my journey, by the time I'd realised.

Does Miss Goodbody guide you too?

 

[Dan B]

Those wheel arches!!

Arches? They look more like lintels to me

 

[Fnaar]

Does Miss Goodbody guide you too?

Well, she helped me explore the Trossachs

 

[stephec]

Well, she helped me explore the Trossachs

Did she show you how to follow the contours?

 

[snorri]

Am I the only one who doesn't have sat nav nowadays?.

No..

 

[ColinJ]

I do use a GPS to guide me on my bike rides, but it is a dumb device which does not have Sat Nav capabilities. That suits me just fine. I like referring to maps and plotting the routes myself, and not relying on a machine to make decisions for me.

 

[snorri]

I decided getting lost is half the fun!

There is truth in that, asking for directions can be the start of a friendship I discovered, but not in darkest England.
The only time I have come a little unstuck was during the London Olympic construction works, Stratford Station was closed and I realised I'd have to cycle on to Harwich for the ferry. I couldn't find a map shop and no one I asked had a clue regarding directions to Harwich. Many said it was physically impossible to cycle such a distance. The lack of any directional knowledge among the natives was something I had never experienced before.