Can you read a map?

I can read a map :) They never taught us in school though, i just did it. my dad used to grump that he would have to stop and look at the map beause my mom couldn't read it. So i looked at maps so i could help my husband while he was driving. we've cheated now, we bought one of those gps things for in our car :)

I find it very difficult to read a map because I have dyspraxia and part of that is having difficulty reading maps and things like that.

I was taught to read a map when I was in school. I also have a good memory for landmarks and routes. If I have been over a route once, then I can find my way over that route again, even years later. It's come in useful on several occasions like when I was on holiday on Malta with my sister a few years ago, she asked me to find a particular jewellery shop that we had visited a few days before. Even though we were in a part of Valetta that we had not been in before, I was able to take her right there because I had seen the street map and even without referring to it, I knew which way to go. Actually, it was no great feat because Valetta is laid out on a grid pattern and it's hard to get lost. However my sister could not have found her way there on her own.

I definitely know how to use a map. I am not the greatest at it, and I usually have to flip it around a little bit to figure out the directions, but I always figure it out. I'm just kind of slow with it, but I get it after a few minutes, lol.

Yea, I think I can read a map. I learned that in school during my geography lessons. I also learned it again when I was in the army.

Yes, I definitely can read a map. I didn't really think people couldn't. I mean they are pretty self explanatory. My friends and I used to take road trips all of the time and I was always the designated "navigator"-it came with shotgun (front seat) privledges woohoo!! I have always had a very good knack at knowing where I was and how to get from point A to point B even in very unfamiliar territory.

It's one thing if you have a disability that makes it harder for you to read a map, it's another thing if you don't even try or are not taught. I am very good with maps as I have extremely high spatial ability. I am always surprised at how many people don't even have a basic ability to read maps.