Map with all street names on in a list?

[Vegeta]

Random question to ask but I find people on here are generally quite resourceful! I have recently acquired a takeaway and I require maps so I can print off so we can locate address quicker. I know we can all use satnav etc but I find generally if you look at maps and learn over time you tend to just remember where the addresses are. In the past I had a street map of a town that has numbers all over it that correspond to a street name in the key. Does anyone know where these are available?

Thank you.

 

[robfosters]

Why don't you just print off Google maps?

Edit: read your post again, no, I don't know where you would get that.

 

[Surveyor]

The internet, WH Smith, bookshops, newsagents, petrol stations etc.

 

[itchy]

Postcode map is what you want mate.

Try

http://www.free-postcode-maps.co.uk/

Dont know where you are but 3-5mile radius is the average in and around cities.

 

[Vegeta]

Postcode map is what you want mate.

Try

http://www.free-postcode-maps.co.uk/

Dont know where you are but 3-5mile radius is the average in and around cities.

I think i'm using this wrong because all it seems to do is just be google maps?

The internet, WH Smith, bookshops, newsagents, petrol stations etc.

If it's so easy find me an example

 

[Surveyor]

I think i'm using this wrong because all it seems to do is just be google maps?

If it's so easy find me an example

Stoke-on-Trent A-Z

I can also walk into town and buy it from several shops.

 

[Vegeta]

An example of what I mean:

You obviously haven't read the OP Surveyor.

EDIT: Just before anyone asks - The list of street names is from A to Z and numbered 1 - 100 (assuming 100 streets). On a A to Z if someone says they live at 4 Caucus Hole - I would have to find the relevant page and find the street looking at the whole page of street names so it won't be instant/easy as the whole reason i'm searching for it is because I don't have a clue where it is. If it is set A to Z I could go down the alphabetical list - find C's easy find the number for Caucus and find the street right away. The tend to block estates under one grouping of numbers so even if it is 1,000 streets the numbers may only go to 50 in a set section of the map.

 

[Surveyor]

Maybe I am explaining it badly. This is an example of what I want:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9552934/example.bmp[/IMG[/QUOTE]

A map like the one you've posted may be workable for a few streets but how many streets are there within your delivery area?

 

[Nitefly]

Postcode map is what you want mate.

Try

http://www.free-postcode-maps.co.uk/

Dont know where you are but 3-5mile radius is the average in and around cities.

Surely the idea of a 'postcode map' is flawed as a postcode isn't restricted to a geographical area, but a postal area? Ridiculously pedantic of me I know

 

[Vegeta]

A map like the one you've posted may be workable for a few streets but how many streets are there within your delivery area?

I have seen and owned these before - I know they are workable and available. I was given it by a customer years back to whom I have no contact I just came on here to ask as people tend to be helpful at finding such random things.

 

[Caged]

I'm sure there's a market for maps like these since it's 1990 and there is no way of feeding an address into a device and it spitting a map back at you. Maybe in the future, who knows!

 

[Vegeta]

Yes that makes sense every time you have to give 3 drivers 3 orders each within half an hour interval i'll sit on my PC/Tablet print it all off for them one by one. Either help or don't bother replying simple really.

 

[Caged]

Or they could use a smartphone. I hear they are pretty popular now.

 

[Vegeta]

Or they could use a smartphone. I hear they are pretty popular now.

Yes i'll tell my drivers to drive with their phones in their hands. Mate clearly you do whatever you do when it comes to your employment so please don't assume to tell me what to do. We all have smartphones it's all about making things quicker improving things a better service anything small helps. I could sit in my car one by one trying to find the postcode for a place if my signal allows it or I could check a map before I leave and know exactly where the next 3 places are. The first being in Dodgy estate second left as you get in. The second being in Annoying GD Members lodge 2nd left first right and the 3rd in Go To Sleep ZZZ Housing Estate fourth right. All done before I leave in the matter of seconds.

Satnav reliance is not good for a good delivery driver - think of taxi drivers and the knowledge you never learn inputting codes. The best drivers I have learn the addresses as I have in the past the guys who are reliant on Satnav tend to be slow and what if the satnav is wrong?

 

[Rroff]

Council used to provide that kind of thing to businesses (for a fee) IIRC output from the Ludhouse system or something - no idea if they do any more though.

 

[Vegeta]

Council used to provide that kind of thing to businesses (for a fee) IIRC output from the Ludhouse system or something - no idea if they do any more though.

Funny you said that I was just about to go to the council tomorrow to see if they have such maps. Thanks hopefully that'll be the solution to my annoyance not finding these maps!

 

[Rroff]

I know they used to - atleast around here - but that was like mid 1990s when I was doing work experience in the local council IT dept (actually the IS not IT dept).

 

[Vegeta]

I know they used to - atleast around here - but that was like mid 1990s when I was doing work experience in the local council IT dept (actually the IS not IT dept).

Guessing the demand is no longer there... I might have to spend a few evenings numbering the maps myself.

 

[Haggisman]

Guessing the demand is no longer there... I might have to spend a few evenings numbering the maps myself.

When I was a Dominos driver, we had a big map on the wall with an alphabetical list of streets and a grid reference next to each - this is probably far more useful than arbitrarily numbering roads based on where you think the numbers should go, which won't work for anything more than 20-30 streets...

 

[diamount]

Hey OP, maybe this will help you:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices.html

Enter first part of the postcode into the search box and click 'map view' and the more you zoom out the more addresses that will appear.