tatanab wrote:I have no use for following predetermined routes so maps are the way to go and make it up on the move. Ok, the GPS or Smartphone offer maps but not at a scale at which it is easy to follow - I know because I've tried navigating my way across a city using just a map on an Edge 800 and simple could not see anything like far enough ahead, unlike with a paper map.
On the whole I'm with you, but back in September I was out for a ride on a day that turned out nicer than expected so I extended beyond the usual route and the 'phone was all I needed to put in an extra few miles along routes I'd never travelled before, zooming out giving enough for strategy and zooming in for tactics. And navigating across a city with just a paper map is just as much as a pain in its own way IME.
Didn't answer the poll, it would have been all of them except the whizzy GPS, but I couldn't select that.
Pete.