I used to use paper maps all the time, but I’ve never seen this thing before. Pretty cool.
That looks a lot nicer than the big foldable pieces of s*** that we all had.
The most common ones were books that you’d flip east/west through, or skip to the indicated page for north/south, right?
Man I’m sure it was something like that. Honestly at this point I mostly remember what MapQuest looked like if we wanted to go old school.
You talking about a MAPSCO?
We don’t use nearly as many genericized trademarks where I’m from. I know that several publishers used this technique to make a road atlas of the Czech Republic in the 90s and 00s.
We had maps that fold thousand times.
On land, same. When I needed a map on a boat I had a chart table.
For anyone wondering what the heck this thing is, it’s called a roll chart. Usually these are loaded with turn-by-turn instructions for rally racing or similar, but as you can see you can also stick a map in one.
If you’re going to do the map thing it kind of helps for your overall route to be oriented vertically, or else otherwise you have to stick the map in it sideways.
Yeah, i feel like using a map in a roll chart holder doesn’t make a lot of sense.
The endless scrolling of directional notes is the point.
I have seen guys do it, though. I suppose in certain specific scenarios it might make sense. I’m in agreement there, though, I think I’ll give it a pass unless I absolutely have to.
“Recalculating.”
twist twist twist roll roll roll
“Recalculating.”
twist roll twist etc.
I had a stack of printed map quest directions. With impossible to read maps because of poor quality printer.
And if you missed one direction you were fucked.
I’m thinking about going back to a paper map. Has anyone else had a problem with Google Maps suddenly making insane routing decisions? There are a couple routes I travel often and I check before I leave, mainly for traffic conditions, but have found in the last couple months that Google suggests a completely insane route instead when there isn’t anything to detour around or avoid. It’s almost like routing is now an AI hallucination.
Just use CoMaps or something else based on OpenStreetMap
No, it’s routing you along businesses who paid for you to be routed along there. They crank up the monetization of maps.
That happened a couple times to me lately as well.
no but i had a little book.
We had a very hefty book.
Mine came with the phone guide, but it was smaller. Maybe 1/4th as thick and half the size.
What in the Ronco is that? I’m a state gazetteer kinda guy. Also used the county street atlas for local getting around.
I was certainly a mapbook pro, but, not with one of those.
Where’s my Falk crowd?
