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How do you navigate on long journeys?

• Paper Maps - 123 votes
• 46%
• Dedicated Sat-Nav - 106 votes
• 40%
• Mobile Phone Maps - 21 votes
• 8%
• I Guess! - 16 votes
• 6%

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[mccfluff]

there isnt "google street view before i go and hope i can remember"

[Graham-W]

Although I have a dedicated sat-nav I still check my route on a paper map and commit as much as possible to memory.

[TWR]

30+ years of HGV Driving, I am familiar with the UK. Also getting off a Motorway and using the old roads.

[2sp_]

I check the map before I leave, and then rely on road signs.

[Mosaic]

Bit of a flawed poll Ed - it misses out the blended approach.
I look at the place / route on various map programs such as google and bing

Bing especially for using the Ordnance Survey option to locate key topographical or townscape features

Streetview to get a visual of what key junctions will look like

I may print off a list of key directions if someone is co-piloting, otherwise I'll memorise them (possibly also forget them)

But I don't use mobile devices of any kind when driving

[Cloverjo]

I've never used a sat-nav. I print out directions and a map from Google maps or similar, and take my ipad so I can see where I am on the map.

[ducksie]

I go on paper maps but listen to local radio reports in the area for any change such as car crash/ road works or obstructions not showing on sat navs etc

[hc4361]

I use a dedicated, paid for sat nav app on my properly mounted Nexus 7 tablet.

[Buenchico]

I've selected 'Paper Maps' but, like Mosaic, I find that my actual method is missing from the list.

I normally use the AA routefinder to find a route for me and then check on a road atlas to see if it makes sense. Then I'll make notes summarising the route and have them (together with a road atlas opened at the relevant page) alongside me in the car.

[RATTER15]

Sat Nav. It ain't let me down yet.

[bonzothedog]

Paper maps

[DaffodilDai]

Paper Maps. Half the joy of a car journey is looking at the map and exploring the countryside all around the main roads and discovering little villages raods etc that you'd never get to see ordinarily

[FrogNog]

I look at my route on Google Maps and memorise a few key points then off I go.
I might jot down some road numbers if it's somewhere I'm unfamiliar with.

[telecom1]

paper maps