I used to have a good sese of direction until I started using GPS - TomTom on my PDA. Tomorrow I'm heading 183 miles up the motorways to the NW of England to a client and although I know the way, I still use the GPS. I'm lazy and it stops me having to think about where I am.
I'm a big believer in free and open mapping data, so thought about turning on the laptop and using MapPoint to log the journey points; I have a separate USB GPS that'll work fine for this. So I put in the start and end points of the journey and viewed a map of the route. Or to be precise a map of a route; it's really only my route for parts of the journey. As you can see it favours the scenic route, taking the ferry over to the Isle of Man, spending the afternoon and evening there, before catching the morning ferry into Morecombe, which is my ultimate destination. By road, 3 hours; by MapPoint, 24 hours.
