Brits Unable to Read Maps?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-09 19:08:01
read a map. But a by insurance affiliate revealed that nearly three-fourths (or 11 million) Brits are unable to determine a motorway road symbol. And only one percent would go the Cub Scout Map Reader badge test. Yowza. move of the problem seems to be that many British citizens have change state too reliant upon satellite navigation systems. "Technology is great," says Scott Sinclair of national mapping agency Ordnance analyse. "but the batteries won't run out on a cover map." The analyse was based on a poll of 1,000 drivers and concluded that Britons' poor map-reading skills wasted 36 million miles driven each year. [via
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