maps

[david1701]

Hi all, I saw some OS maps in the post office earlier and they were 1:100,000, they looked pretty good for going on long rides where I might get lost, and one would cover me to go down into cornwall and another for almost all of Devon, so each covers my max range in whatever direction.

Are the waterproof ones massively more worth it or are paper ok and is that scale alright? as I might pop back in and buy one of each for 12 quid

 

[subaqua]

waterproof is better. nothing worse than trying to read a soggy map. even mapcases leak !!

and never ever mark a map with pencil or otherwise. use a sheet of plastic and a chinagraph pencil if you have to make marks to follow. mark the main easting and northing lines to get the alignments when you need to overlay.

 

[david1701]

they don't do these in waterproof so should I bail on them then and get loads of normal 1:50,000s?

 

[sabian92]

If you use the OS website I believe you can get all of their maps with the waterproofed covering on them. Not sure as I've never bought any but I'm sure you can get them.

 

[Spinney]

waterproof is better. nothing worse than trying to read a soggy map. even mapcases leak !!

and never ever mark a map with pencil or otherwise. use a sheet of plastic and a chinagraph pencil if you have to make marks to follow. mark the main easting and northing lines to get the alignments when you need to overlay.

You can use waterproof OHP pens on waterproof maps. Get the marks off again with a little alcohol (white spirit, surgical spirit or, as a last resort, wine!)

 

[david1701]

thats a great shout, I use babywipes to clean stuff when working on the bike so they will do the solvent job on the pen.

It was the website I checked Sabian

 

[evilclive]

Hi all, I saw some OS maps in the post office earlier and they were 1:100,000, they looked pretty good for going on long rides where I might get lost, and one would cover me to go down into cornwall and another for almost all of Devon, so each covers my max range in whatever direction.

The blue/grey OS "Travel" maps? I didn't like them - too compromised towards "easy to read". OS 1:50K and 1:25K are fantastic maps, but it's a shame they don't do a decent 1:100K like the IGN Top-100 series in France.

What would suit me would be a trivial rescale of a 1:50 to 1:100, ie just print the same stuff but half the size. Ok, it would be harder to read things like contours, and not everybody would be able to read them, but I just tried looking at what it would be like on the laptop screen, and even with the crappy resolution of an LCD it's pretty good - print would be fine.

 

[david1701]

thats not a bad shout, and a small loupe for seeing the detail where you need it, I don't know these IGN maps as I've never ridden abroad :s