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Sat Nav’s are all well and good, but they only get you to where you are going. To be a true adventurer you need maps, and lots of them. Luckily, living in England, we have access to the Ordnance Survey maps, which are all awesome. These come in a variety of scales and allow you to find the cool places to visit, which (if you have to) you can then navigate to with your Sat Nav. You could be really daring and ditch the technology and navigate by paper maps and signposts!<\/p>\n
The ‘Landranger’ series are in 1:50,000 scale (2cm to 1 km, or 1 and a quarter inches to 1 mile). These are what I first used to learn how to read maps, and the earliest one we have is a Seventh series map of Northampton, map number 133, from 1961, where the scale was one inch to one Statute Mile. Our current Leicestershire map in number 140, revision C2, from 2006. We will need to update this soon, as unfortunately the landscape of our county is changing daily, and not always for the better!<\/p>\n
The next set of maps we use, and the ones we use the most, are the ‘OS Explorer’ range. They are in 1:25,000 scale (4 cm to 1 km, or 2 and a half inches to 1 mile). Better detail and double sided. Some are available in an ‘Active Map’ version, which is laminated and waterproof. Ideal for the UK! Most of ours are from 2015, although one is from last year. All of these new ones currently come with a Mobile Download code, which is hidden under a scratch off panel.You can download the OS app and then download a digital version of your map, should you wish to. We actually subscribe to the app as well for around \u00a320 per year (as of 2020). Its still nice to lay a paper map our over a car bonnet, and search around for somewhere interesting to go.<\/p>\n