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M Is For… Maps! – by Rachel Wilder! — 8 Comments

  1. What a great post! Excellent follow-on to L for location.

    I have gotten lost many times. Once, hiking alone on a rather large trail set, I made a wrong turn and struggled to beat the setting winter sun. Over the years I have learned not to panic. Oh, and did I ever tell you about my guardian angel?

  2. I love maps of all kinds. Changing maps of Europe. Maps of antiquity. Maps of fictional places. But I also like my GPS.

    Stephen Tremp
    A to Z Cohost
    M is for Movies

  3. Sat nav will never replace the real thing! Well, it probably will, but I'll stick to those paper jobs you can never get to fold back the way they started!

  4. There's a neat shop here in Evanston, Illinois, USA, that carries all sorts of maps – antique ones, cartographic research, etc. Their website is here: http://www.ritzlin.com/; and they have an online gallery. It's heady stuff.

    I find that orienting myself on paper is much better than trying to do it on a GPS. I've used a GPS and all but given up on it because of how many times it's not been just a little wrong, but a LOT (like the time it sent us to the police station on the wrong side of town instead of our hotel).

  5. I get lost all the time, too. 🙂 No sense of orientation at all. Funny that I draw a map for my story world, manage to write the setting correctly, but in real life I'd get lost around my house. 🙂 I loved reading your post, and the excerpt you added!