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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Kids will never experience being stared at by people sitting on their porches while slow-driving through a seedy neighborhood because you was the map upside down.

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  • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Real life footage

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• SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I enjoyed looking at the big map of my state and calculating the approximate time we would either pass a city, or arrive at our destination. It was fun. I was pretty close too!

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  • NJSpradlin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I used to do something similar on my trips back from college, calculate my ETA based on the mile markers and my speed. I was damn near dead on, too!

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    • SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hell yeah! I still do that on road trips to pass the time. Keeps things a bit interesting.

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My parents used one of these to plan the vacations:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisometer

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    • SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s really cool!

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I have one of those. They’re useful for measuring distances on topo maps where pretty much nothing is a straight line.

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• MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If the trip was short, and roads in a grid (Midwest, not California), one could just memorize the major turns and wing it.

  This is how some went hundreds of miles in the wrong direction. (Gotta cross check with city names.)

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• TheSlad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mate we used to navigate from large physical atlases. I remember having to pull out the state atlas and find page for the county we were in and then route a path and navigate my mom to our destination when I when I was like 12.

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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It wasn’t better but I kinda miss it.

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We drive across the country every summer to visit family. Growing up, my parents used to talk about different routes and which one felt faster. Like “you can get off the interstate and take this county road and shave some time off.” But then they’d argue about if it was worth taking a road with a lower speed limit even if it was less distance.

      Eventually they tried to impart that wisdom to me and would ask “so which route are you taking?” It took years for them to finally grasp that I just go whatever the way the GPS tells me is faster.

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• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lol. True. I’m ild enough to remember my mother riding shotgun and navigating with that big-ass printed map while dad just followed orders.

  How did they even reach places back then…I wouldn’t find my way outta the garage without android auto and Sygic.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That was a major strain on a few relationships, some people are just terrible at directions.

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    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      True true…but still, I’m older than the internet but how people made it from A to B back in the days eluded and still eludes me. And they even managed to be on time. I wouldn’t have made it into the right country…

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• HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I drove 1500 miles with directions to the town center, and a phone number written on a paper plate. I then used a pay phone to call her and tell her “Surprise, I drove to your town, wheres your apartment?”

  She bet me I wouldn’t.

  I won that bet. Victory party lasted the entire weekend, then I drove home. 😂

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• haych@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I had my dad once draw a map from memory and I had to read that so my mum and I could go visit a relative in hospital. Those were the days.

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• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I miss that. I remember it was normal seeing people on the side of the road, checking the map before continuing their trip.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My buddy installed alarm systems. He had the Thomas Guide, or whatever the book of maps was, and learned to navigate like a badass. I’ve always got lost and smartphones changed my world.

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• Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s still more fun. I like using the offline maps mode on Google Maps and having to plan my routes.

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• sprite0@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I have a thing called left-right confusion and before mapquest I was hurtin’! I would go in a gas station and get directions but never had a pen to write them down and then the odds of me mentally flipping a turn at some point were like 200%

  mapquest was a boon but I truly love just letting siri tell me which way to go. This rarely backfires.

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• AlDente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I miss these simpler times.

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