Can you read an os map?

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I always thought it was something everybody could but today I asked the manager of a pub in was in (a youngish man) to show me where we were on the map and he couldn't - said that he used sat nav instead. So perhaps map reading isn't taught, or learnt, any more. Which seems a shame.

taught in geography at dd's school.

Used to be part of Year 7 Geography (if not earlier through Guides/Scouts). Would be surprised if it's been removed, but maybe a Geography teacher could confirm.

Maybe he was too interested in playing the fool in class for it to register?

Yes!
They teach it at school; my DCs can read maps! But not everyone can or are interested in knowing how to....

I was never taught it, at least that I remember, but it’s not that hard to figure it out — I suspect I’d struggle with properly mountainous no-roads-or-footpaths-with-a-compass stuff, though.

At school in the 1960’s we had to design our own map of an imaginary island and invent symbols for hills, marsh, contours, churches, roads etc, before studying OS maps and learning the benefits of consistent universal symbols. We were all taught to read maps, locate compass points, orientate ourselves in a landscape, and plan routes.
I think satnav and iphones are slowly killing off these skills, and it’s a shame. I still love poring over local OS maps to plan walks in the hills or along rivers and beaches.

Yes, I love maps.

I teach our cubs how to map read and get the basics. We made a 3D map in the village hall using the cubs to represent the steep hill covered in trees. It was a fun way of showing them what contour lines mean.
Hopefully when they move on to Scouts they will have a good basis to build on.

Yes I can map read, but I'm old. I learned at school & still use maps regularly now. You can keep your new-fangled sat navs, I much prefer a good old map.

Yes, 40 years old and was taught it in school.

Yes, we weren’t taught at school but I learnt doing DofE.

I can look at maps for hours, I love them.

Yes - since I was 10

Am 56 now

Geography teacher! Yes we still teach it. 1st lesson how to unfold and fold without ripping it!! I also use them at guides. Some kids just aren't interested tbh and I could do it every term and they'd still forget!

I love maps I was so excited when we went to our new homes office to look at our house plans and there were contours!!!

Yes, my dad taught me.

I love OS maps! DH and l still have a daft thing will say to each other if we want to leave somewhere 'do you want to mag to grid'?

Oh contours! Spurs were always a fav!

Yes, but I was a Scout and am now a cub leader. I love maps but from various conversations with people I have been surprised at the number that can't use a map and compass.

Yes but I wasn't taught in school- I grew up with a dad who is a mountaineer and still spend most of my weekends in the hills so have been a necessity for me.

I love maps and from an early age loved looking up places on maps with my father and planning car journeys and days out.

Sadly neither of my now adult children, despite myself and grandad repeatedly showing them, have any ability to read a map.

I go hiking with my dogs over rough terrain and in isolated parts of the countryside, so it's important I can find my way back to my car and map reading is essential. I do have sat nav on my phone but of course that relies on the phone having charge and reception.

Yes! I use miss daily for my job, but and I do lots of walking and cycling in my spare time. I’m a Cub leader too, just annotating a map for the cubs to follow for a walk next week..

I was recently when I asked a colleague to get me a grid reference avd she said she couldn’t because she’d just turned off her laptop. I handed her a paper OS 1:50,000 sheet and said “approximately will do”. She had no idea what to do. I am genuinely curious if the “GIS Generation” understand map reading basics.,

Yes, of course.

I have a certificate in map reading.

Yes, I won competitions through the Guides.

Ds has done a fair bit of orienteering at primary school. He's 8.

Teen dd hasn't done any. Must teach her.

Yup. Learnt at school in the 80s.

I can but I was a guide and it was on the gcse geography curriculum. That said the os app is a lot easier!