Originally Posted by
Machka
Cell phones do not work everywhere ... just a hop, skip, and a jump west of where I live, cell phone coverage dies, and then there's quite a large area (the Rocky Mountains) where you won't get cell phone coverage at all, or only occasional coverage.
I realize that, but having a cellphone that works in other places might be a good middle ground between no GPS and a whole GPS unit. I'm always going to tour with a cell phone, even though I know I lose coverage in mountains as close as a few miles up Canyon Rd in Boulder, CO. It may prove invalueable in the middle of Nebraska or Kansas.
Originally Posted by
Machka
A question ... do they not teach map reading in school anymore? You're not the first one to indicate that reading maps is/was foreign to you. I could swear it was on the curriculum. Yes, actually, I just checked and students (in Alberta anyway) start learning to read maps in Grade One. I started learning to read maps when I was about 6 or 7 years old.
I'm a cartographer by trade, so I know a little something about maps
