On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:35:21 GMT, AZ Nomad
wrote:
>On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:10:14 +0100, B Vaughan wrote:
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>>On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:45:12 -0500, Dave Smith
>> wrote:
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>>>FWIW, my wife was navigating on a trip a few years ago and was totally messed up
>>>in Holland. We had a map the same size as our provincial road map. One one
>>>occasion we were headed for a small town north east of Arnhem. She told me the
>>>exit was a few miles after we crossed a river, but the exit was about 200 yards
>>>past the river. Not a problem, there is a place ti turn around about 10 miles
>>>down the road. It turned out to be less than a mile. She was having a really bad
>>>time adjusting to the difference in scale of the map. It took us less than 4
>>>hours of easy driving from the very north of Holland to Belgium. It takes me
>>>longer than that to get to an annual vacation site, and it is not even half way
>>>up on the map of the southern half of our province.
>
>>My (Italian) husband has a similar problem when driving in the US. He
>>thinks we can stop for lunch in a town that we won't reach until the
>>next day.
>
>How long can it take to traverse one inch on the map? It's just 500 miles or
>so.
The problem is that on an Italian map, you can traverse an inch in 15
minutes, even on back roads. The maps we use most often, which cover
several provinces, are to a scale of 2 kilometers to a centimeter, so
an inch would be about 8 miles.
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>My record for a day's driving was 1250 miles. I was ready to quit while in
>western kansas on my way to denver colorado. Just a little more and I could be
>home. Another 4 hours; another 300 miles.
We don't drive anywhere near that much in a day. We can cross from
where we live, on the Adriatic coast, to the opposite coast in a few
hours. However, we don't drive that much even when we're driving in
the US. I wouldn't want to cover more than 600 miles a day, normally,
although I've covered much more when there was a necessity.
--
Barbara Vaughan
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