Thread: Paper topo maps

Paper maps are only part of the picture. You need to be good at map to compass work, and doing paces and bearings. THEN you are well on the way to not getting lost when in new country. But that takes practise, and the skills are perishable. You need to use them a few times a year.

Google maps now appears to lose where you are when data drops off for a period of time. Hardly user friendly in country like rural NZ.

Give me a paper map any day. Waay back when they were a dollar each (1984) I purchased all the 1:50 thous of NZ, plus the one in 250 thou. The roads and buildings may have changed, but the bush/rivers/ridges have not.