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Oct 2020
11:16pm, 9 Oct 2020
313 posts
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Cheekys Dad
Not an orienteer but love a map. Current ones for daydreaming and planning (and use, of course) Old ones for the fascination.
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Oct 2020
11:18pm, 9 Oct 2020
47,031 posts
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McGoohan
Soz folks - I set up the thread then went away to watch a fillum. Though I have some problems with them, I do quite like the clarity of the mapping on Sustrans bike trail maps.
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Oct 2020
11:20pm, 9 Oct 2020
68,573 posts
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swittle
Many years ago, I bought a print of Johan Blaeu's map of the county of york, 1648 at auction - and paid more than the price to get it framed. It's from the Atlas Novus.
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Oct 2020
11:23pm, 9 Oct 2020
8,404 posts
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BaronessBL
Just found this thread.
I love maps. I'm seriously envious of that shelf of maps of McGoohan's it makes my collection look very inferior indeed. I refuse to own a sat nav in case I lose the ability to read a map as a result. Although some might say a sat nav is little more than a talking map anyway.......
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Oct 2020
11:26pm, 9 Oct 2020
47,032 posts
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McGoohan
(I'm writing a blog about my fights with the satnav...)
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Oct 2020
11:27pm, 9 Oct 2020
47,033 posts
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McGoohan
So for a bit of fun, here are three ways to do a Bike Map: German, Danish and UK
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Oct 2020
11:36pm, 9 Oct 2020
2,296 posts
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Fitz
I'm fond of a map but not an orienteer. Being a London(ish)er all my life, I've never been far from an A-Z either. One day long ago my dad came home with a cool hardback A4 sized A-Z of London that had "property of London Fire Brigade" embossed on the dark blue cover. Early 80s, it featured things like Broad St station next to Liverpool Street, Docklands with some docks in it and fields where the M25 wasn't. I wish I'd never thrown it out...
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Oct 2020
9:18am, 10 Oct 2020
2,269 posts
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flyingfinn
Getting hold of old maps of an area and comparing them to today is something I can lose myself in for hours. For the immediate area round my house I've got OS maps going back to 1805, which due to the building of a reservoir in the late 80s make for particularly interesting viewing.
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Oct 2020
9:49am, 10 Oct 2020
4,937 posts
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FenlandRunner
Agreed, it is amazing to see how my locality has changed in a couple of hundred years.
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Oct 2020
9:58am, 10 Oct 2020
53,702 posts
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Diogenes
I’m watching. I first explored Britain via a 1974 Bartholomew’s Road Atlas my Dad had. I was very sad when I found he’d got rid of it as it about 15 years ago because he got an up to date version.
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