I've got one of those AZ Street Atlases for my local area, the kind that look like this on the outside...
...and like this on the inside...
These are great because they clearly show the footpaths/bridleways/farm tracks within a given area. However, the given area covered by these books encompasses the urban centres, suburbs and main roads. As soon as you want to plan an off-road route towards the sticks, you hit the edge of the map's coverage.
So I went to Google Maps, but they seem to be nothing but a plain background, criss-crossed by roads. You can see the course of paths and bridleways using Google Earth -- providing you've already found out beforehand that the border of a field or wiggly gap thru some woodland is actually a thoroughfare.
So what do other people use? Is there an online map that shows the byways, or do you just rely on paper maps with broader coverage than the AZ maps?
...and like this on the inside...
These are great because they clearly show the footpaths/bridleways/farm tracks within a given area. However, the given area covered by these books encompasses the urban centres, suburbs and main roads. As soon as you want to plan an off-road route towards the sticks, you hit the edge of the map's coverage.
So I went to Google Maps, but they seem to be nothing but a plain background, criss-crossed by roads. You can see the course of paths and bridleways using Google Earth -- providing you've already found out beforehand that the border of a field or wiggly gap thru some woodland is actually a thoroughfare.
So what do other people use? Is there an online map that shows the byways, or do you just rely on paper maps with broader coverage than the AZ maps?
