Tech hints

[Barrie Heaton]

A few more tips on maps.

My road maps, I sectioned them off, cut them up and thermoformed them.
This has the advantage that you are only handling a 12 by 6 inch map and
with the thermoform on you can use a marker to hilight where you are
going.  Makes life a lot easier.  If you haven't got a friend who has a
thermoform machine,  if you wrap cling film round tape one end and use a
hair dryer to shink your cling film, if you use cling film you'll have
to back your map with carboard.

For your A to Z street maps: if you are like me and you can never
remember the customer until you walk in to the house and it all comes
back, I put a reference in my data base for arguments sake "shp11-g4"
that is Shurmas map, page 11, sec G4 saves you looking up the alphabet
index.

This one may only be applicable to the U.K. but you get a long street
four miles long,  with the houses set way back and you need a telescope
to read the house numbers.  Get the customer to read the street lighting
number, all the lamp posts in the U.K. are numbered.  I don't know if
they are in other Countries but I find that one quite useful.

Kind regards,

Barrie.


>2.  I have found it helpful to keep a set of road maps in my vehicle.  These
>come in quite handy when looking for a house that is out in the country or
>in an unfamiliar section of town.  It sure beats driving around lost and
>finally stopping at a gas station to ask directions!  I would suggest a
>state map of each state you work in, a city map for the towns that you
>service, and perhaps a county map for each of the counties nearby.
>




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