Paper Maps

[winjim]

Not cycling related, but I'm sure a few folk still use paper maps for navigation so thought I'd ask here.

I'm looking for a large poster size street map of Sheffield. The sort of thing we can stick on the wall to plan potential house moves, locations of schools and nurseries etc. Like what they do on Kirstie & Phil . The AZ premier I think would be ideal but it's out of print and I don't fancy paying £25 (!) for it. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0850398819?ref=olp_product_details

There's also this one http://www.cosmographics.co.uk/UK-Street-Maps/Sheffield-Street-Map.Html but again, £15 seems a bit steep. Does anyone have any other options?

Ta

 

[Dayvo]

Go round Sheffield with a Polaroid camera and make your very own one to one life-size map.

 

[winjim]

[QUOTE 4022580, member: 45"]You can order a bespoke map off of the A-Z website.[/QUOTE]
For £100 by the look of it. I like the wallpaper though.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Wow, that's dear.

Can you print out google maps? Could that work - tape a few sheets together?

Edited to add: yes you can xx

 

[Dayvo]

Can you print out google maps? Could that work - tape a few sheets together? Edited to add: yes you can xx

You can sell your trial effort to him for a fiver!

 

[winjim]

Go round Sheffield with a Polaroid camera and make your very own one to one life-size map.

I already have a 1:1 scale map of the area. I keep it just outside my front door.

Wow, that's dear.

Can you print out google maps? Could that work - tape a few sheets together?

Edited to add: yes you can xx

Functional, but might be a bit tatty.

 

[Dayvo]

I already have a 1:1 scale map of the area. I keep it just outside my front door.

If your starting coordinates are incorrect, you'll get lost as soon as you leave your house. A bit Dr. Whoish!

 

[raleighnut]

If this is as good as the Leicester and Derby cycle maps it may well do, free an all.

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/dms/scc/management/corporate-communications/documents/transport/walking-cycling/cycling/Sheffield-Cycle-Map---City-Centre/Sheffield Cycle Map - City Centre.pdf

paper map from here
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...clemap&usg=AFQjCNGGvP3VcTPId6IDfV1ETa1DBxhIig

 

[Flying Dodo]

See if the local council have one, perhaps a cycling & walking routes one.

Edit - as per above!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'll save you the bother, it's all shïte.

 

[MissTillyFlop]

I already have a 1:1 scale map of the area. I keep it just outside my front door.


Functional, but might be a bit tatty.

Just like me!!!

 

[Dayvo]

I'll save you the bother, it's all shïte.

No, that must have been the toilet paper you were looking at!

 

[winjim]

I'll save you the bother, it's all shïte.

That's why we want to move to a place near the edge, so it's easier to leave.

 

[growingvegetables]

Try copy-and-pasting tiles (from the appropriate OS scale) from http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ into a graphics programme?

It is laborious - granted. But just because I have to look closely at each tile as I paste, I find all sorts of things I'd have missed otherwise?

Yes - I have sad hobbies!