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As someone who grew up using maps ~ OS maps walking and climbing in North Wales.....road atlases when driving, I have always thought and said that using sat nav 'you need to know where you are going to use it well....'
FWIW when I had CoPilot on my old Loox PDA it was great as I could load 6 destinations and it would order them for shortest route (especially usefull for visiting my London clients at that time) The cars (Seat and Ford) that I have had since with built in sat nav are limited to one destination and one waypoint stop
Re. Maps and your North Wales experiences you might enjoy reading this tale. A wee secret,not to tell anyone...lol.
As a youngster..16 ..my company .ICI...sent me on an Outward Bound course to Brathay Hall in the Lake District..Ambleside, I think..wonder if it’s still there ?..I was one of, if not , the youngest of the group . There was even a German lad there,so from all over. One of the challenges was to go through the mountains for three days.. tents,weather-proof clothing, mountain boots and worst of all... dried food..Ugh. I’ve never liked camping. I hated sleeping in a tent . I like ‘me comforts’ . Of course, we had OS maps and when my turn came to use one to lead the group I was stopped by one of the leaders..(adults) from leading the group into a large bog. I may as well as have been looking at a map of the Amazon or the Moon..lol. We had to go up Helvellyn. It was drizzly as I recall .. I know I couldn’t see the summit...and in a spirit of generosity I volunteered to look after the rucksacks at the base whilst the group went up it..”Nice try” said a leader ..”but we’ll do that..up you go lad.” lol. I reached the top..a plateau as I recall and there was a very strong wind . It was calm below so that was unexpected . I was terrified of being blown back over the edge and down and to this day, I recall crawling over the summit on my stomach until I was a decent way from the edge before I stood up. I’m sure we had a go at Scarfel Pike,too. We also did sailing and I enjoyed that.
I have to say that in all my life I was never as fit as I was after that 4 week course . At one point on that three-day hike I helped out one of the others, who was whacked out, by carrying his rucksack for a while, as well as my own. After we returned and had recovered ,the following day we had to stand in front of the group and,using a map on a the wall show where we’d been. I hadn’t a clue , which caused great amusement after a leader said that it was obvious that after three days in the mountains I hadn’t a clue where I’d been . One bit of mountain looked like another to me and unfortunately, there were no sign posts..lol. Some of the group were very good with the OS maps and gave a good account..others,like myself, not so good.
I see it’s still going. Some old photos too. Brings it all back. https://www.brathay.org.uk/about-us/our-history