General Chat

be much easier if they painted red roads red ect then the map would be so easy :-D :-D

As far as I,m concerned, Its No Contest, Its Me. :-D :-D :-D

I have never ever done orienteering - OH just laughs and says well we have seen different scenery! However it is not funny when you have gone around a roundabout 4 times, gone off twice at wrong exit heading for London, on third attempt done a complete circle and on the fourth attempt managed it - then I told him he was a stupid b...er!

LOL....not in my house.....we have got lost in quite a few countries due to my husbands map reading skills and inability to admit he is wrong .He even gets lost with a sat nav :-D

People who don't orientate the map have no sense of direction, map orientation is the very first thing you are taught when learning to map read,

For none map readers It's like trying to read a book upside down

Both men and women are equally as good at map reading

I am exceptionally good at map reading even if i say so myself,

But i do have years of experience both cross country "orienteering" and on the roads both by day and at night

Roy

Det - I turn the map in the direction I am going - makes it so easier for me when OH has turned right when he should have turned left so I can direct him back to where he should have been.

Sat-Navs - dirty word as far as I am concerned - our neighbour bought one and decided to test it to get home - it could not find his house! Not surprising our Post Code directs it up a service road!!

The one time we used a downloaded route it took us to the wrong place to a coference and I was so wound up by the time we found it that I just went home.

Probably both but he would think he is better.

I start to feel sick looking at a large scale map such as an A-Z in a built up area, so he has to pull over and check where we are. :-0

BTW - does it really matter if the map is turned so that the direction of travel is pointing upwards? There is a better chance of getting the L's and R's right :-D :-D

We both love maps and are both brilliant map readers :-D. Neither of us like SatNav, and don't have it, with downloadable maps on phones and tablets don't see the point.

I am,after a mis-spent youth as a van driver.

Not only do I read the map,I still use what we call my van drivers instincts. If you cut down there it will probably bring you out near where you want to be.

We were looking for a club on a housing estate and he decided I was not taking us there so we had to use his sat-nav which said"Procede for 100 metres and it is on your left" One more to me !

Mr TomTom

It is reported in the media that men are better at map reading than women.

Personally I would take issue with this as my OH's skills at map reading are non-existent. By the time he has found the turn-off we are about two miles past it. For many years he developed the fantasy that I did not like driving long distances on motorways! This was because of his map reading skills that I took the passenger seat.

Who is the map reader in your household?