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   MB to All   
   Re: Where is Ingleton?   
   16 Apr 20 08:58:49   
   
   From: MB@nospam.net   
      
   On 15/04/2020 22:47, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   > I find google.co.uk/maps often surprisingly good - certainly at finding   
   > tiny farms and the like (try Rivergreen Mill [Still shows my car, and me   
   > and my friends, from 2009!], or Greenlawalls). For placenames, it's   
   > pretty good too; sometimes adding a comma followed by a county will help   
   > you find a smaller or less-well-known one.   
   >   
   > I suspect it's like it used to be with search engines - you learn the   
   > quirks of the one you are used to.   
   >   
   > (I like google maps as I often use the "directions", set to pedestrian,   
   > to see if an adjacent village is likely or not.)   
      
   Google Maps do not label everything, it does not recognise NGRs so often   
   messy to find somewhere, it's maps are not as clear as the OS ones.   
      
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