In a message dated 8/9/2009 9:13:51 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jehosep...@mindspring.com writes: John Sessoms wrote:
> My experience is about 25% of men can learn to read a map well enough to > navigate by it. The day I really started enjoying maps was when I figured out how to visualize a topo map as a 3D environment, when I was a kid. Since then, I've been a map junkie. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) ============ My Dad got us reading maps young. On family trips, one of us read the map while he drove. Since then I've heard a lot of people do this (or did this). However, I've never done it while out in the wild backpacking or something. Though I don't think it's that hard to determine north. So I've never seen the difficulty in reading a map. My car is fully stocked and when I plan to go somewhere I don't have a map for, I get one beforehand or get one first thing when I arrive there. I simply don't travel without a map. Directions people give me are too imprecise and even when they give me directions I look up their directions on a map. I have had great difficulty seeing why I need a GPS in my car. (Money is better spent on other things, like cameras and stuff.) Marnie aka Doe :-) --------------------------------------------- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
