Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:
It's a shame that, despite having really good mapping and lots of
features, Streetmap is so badly designed as to be almost unusable to
the casual reader. Meanwhile, Google Maps is eminently usable, but the
maps are so crap that anyone who tried to rely on them would instantly
become lost forever.

Have you tried using Google Maps on the Isle of Man?

I'd heard that the Isle of Man wasn't well endowed with interesting
activities and places, but I didn't realise quite how much of a blank,
featureless desert it really was.

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John Band
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