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Great thread...
I love maps too... I used to work a a security guard at Covent Garden, just around the corner was Stanfords.
I spent many happy lunch breaks there, and not much money...

I now collect maps and Atlases...
Old and used are best. My personal favourites are the 1988 Michelin Maps of Africa which I used for my 1st Trans Africa. I also have a nice series from India for the same period.
I have a wall with maps of Africa from the 1500's to present... just lovely. Our visitors often comment on them...

So we are not unique...

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I have a wall with maps of Africa from the 1500's to present... just lovely. Our visitors often comment on them...


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Sounds nice!

On the wall of my 'study' (box room) I have a map I bought while still at school. On it I have drawn all the routes I've taken on my travels. Flights in one colour, boats another and overland, yet another. The great thing is noting how much the world has changed. This map still has the 'Soviet Union' etc. But I'm happy with that. Eventually, when I'm an old man I can look at all the travels I've done and wonder at how much the world has changed since I started travelling.

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Over the last 48 years I have had three longish periods of being a very active (and moderatly successful) car rally navigator - competing mainly throughout the UK.

While competing I was following and calling every inch as we sped on, picking up much additional information which could possibly assist the driver - such as anticipating road surface changes on parish or district boundries. My regret with motorcycling (as much as driving) is that one cannot follow them so closely in 'real time'.

I have kept every map and the intended purpose of any trip to the attic is invariably abandoned when I get to the huge pile of 1 inch and 1:50,000 Ordinance Survey maps. I can, and do, spend endless hours pouring over them.

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Yep,

My ex got frustrated me spending more time with maps then with her. And now I'm in the map making business.

The Michelin 741 for sure is my favourite map. I also like the russian topo maps when printed.

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A friend of mine is a distant descendant, and shares the surname, of John Speed, the mapmaker (John Speed Map Plates). He's also into cartography and the walls of their house are filled with antique maps, organised by region. Most look extremely valuable, so I'd better not say exactly where I live!
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I love a map -

the best being (for me) British Ordinance Survey or Michelin maps. They are objects of beauty and I love them to bits. I worked in the Fisherfield Forest north of Loch Maree in NW Scotland in the late 70's and nothing gives me more pleasure than to pore over a map of where I took my ponies each day. These were deerstalking ponies, for carrying the carcasses of the red deer off the mountain; we culled around 10% per autumn, around 100 stags, and then more hinds in winter. I also used many other area maps, such as Glencoe, Loch Lomond area, Ben Alder, Rannoch Moor etc etc. Maps were my dreams when enduring a week in shipyards or oil rigs -the thought of doing a big walk kept you going through the week. To say nothing of nursing an old BSA up over Rannoch on a winter Friday, with crap lights and brakes, and no certainty of reaching the (wild) campsite that night.

Now I also get pleasure from the Michelin maps and I think of North Africa in particular. In fact, these different maps trace the changes in my life.

I am not yet won over to GPS use, as I find the map a pleasure.
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Great thread Matt.

Yes the Michelin series and north Africa in particular really do it for me - such beautiful colors and inspirational places. But it's an area of the World I still have to really explore.

I would love to get some antique maps - it's great to see the old British Empire and see how the World map looked 100 years ago. It's truly fascinating how the World is still changing but I guess that we won't see any major change in mapping for the distant future as we did with the break up of the USSR.

What about globes? I've got a great 18" floor globe that seems to always stop on Africa when spun!

Then there are the map facts. How long can you look at a map before figuring out something amazing like Afghanistan - the only country name with three consecutive letters of the alphabet or the only place where four countries meet......
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My ex got frustrated me spending more time with maps then with her. And now I'm in the map making business.

The Michelin 741 for sure is my favourite map. I also like the russian topo maps when printed.

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I just Googled to find what the Michelin 741 covered.
Sorry but I just had to know.
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