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Jivebunny@lemmy.world āØ1ā© āØmonthā© agoThis is actually a map of the Netherlands and Iām from there. Iām also old enough to remember a time without mobile phones. This was probably the call centre for triple AAA, in Dutch the ANWB. We had these emergency telephone poles along the highways. When stranded and without a map you could easily call aid through them with these phones, which they also knew where they were, for easy dispatching.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works āØ1ā© āØmonthā© ago
Iām also dutch, and Im pretty sure you couldnāt call for route advice from the ANWB poles. Or at least, you couldnāt in the later years, maybe it was different in the 60s.
It does make a lot more sense these people are planners, not general navigation advisers.