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Neil Brown 2d ago

Can you navigate reliably with a map and compass?

Yes

81.6%

No

13.2%

You really are old, Neil. We have smartphones now. No-one needs these basic offline skills.

5.3%

Poll ended at Jun 8 at 4:01pm.

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HollieK 2d ago

@neil

I've voted no, because I doubt I could see the correct lines on the map nowadays, without having to change to reading glasses the whole time. This also means that I couldn't follow a map on a smartphone either. It's not a skill thing, it's a vision thing, which I totally misunderstood when years ago my dad said my mum couldn't map-read. I thought she didn't have the skill, but she was about the same age as I am now, and she didn't have the visual acuity required.

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Neil Brown

@HollieK72 Ooh, interesting take!

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HollieK 2d ago

@neil And belated apologies to my mum, for spending years thinking that she was illiterate in map-reading. I'm pretty sure I couldn't map-read for my husband in the car as I wouldn't be able to see both the map and the road at the same time.

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HollieK 2d ago

@neil It's the difference between "I can't map-read" and "I can't read the map," but in both cases I can't navigate reliably with a map and compass.

@HollieK72 Yes!

@neil Just had more of a think about it.