Globalti said:
Britain is the best-mapped country in the world, we are lucky to have such fantastic maps.
I agree. My experience of trying to buy a decent map of Corfu confirmed that. A shopkeeper tried selling me a map that not only did not have the road that we were standing on marked, it didn't have the village either!
Globalti said:
I can't understand why anybody other than a delivery driver would want to use a crap nav.
You're really not trying hard enough!
Your exciting new route round the Cheshire lanes has over 150 junctions on it. Do you really want to stop and look at your map 150 times? (That was the case for a '200' I did. The audax route sheet was very detailed and clear but you only needed to have a 2% error rate to get lost 3 times and many riders did just that! I used my 'crap nav' and got on with enjoying the ride.)
It's windy - do you really want to be chasing your Landranger map across the field?
It's raining - do you really want your lovely map to get wet? (Okay you can buy expensive laminated maps, or map holders but then you'd have to keep taking your maps out and refolding them.)
I love OS mapping so I have plenty of the paper maps. I also have the entire UK covered by OS 1:50,000 'Landranger' digital maps for my Memory Map software. I do my map reading for a ride at home where it is warm, dry, not windy, and I'm not hurtling down a 40 mph descent in traffic. I then program the route data into my GPS and use that to navigate by - it's the best of both worlds.
I admit that I wouldn't like a device telling me which way to go if I hadn't first told it which way I wanted to go!