We had maps that fold thousand times.
Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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hayvan@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Folding maps were the USB-A of it’s age. We would always fold it wrong the first time.
expatriado@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i still get to live that life with blueprints at work
assembly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just the first time? I still have a bunch of my paper maps and I don’t think a single one is folded according to the original design. Turns into origami.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fold it the wrong way and it’d eventually start to split
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
On land, same. When I needed a map on a boat I had a chart table.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
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.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I’ve used maps, but not whatever this is.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
What’s it called? I want one.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s a map in a roll chart holder. These days they’re used in rally and off road racing, and sometimes motorcycle touring.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Recalculating.”
twist twist twist roll roll roll
“Recalculating.”
twist roll twist etc.
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
no but i had a little book.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We had a very hefty book.
Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mine came with the phone guide, but it was smaller. Maybe 1/4th as thick and half the size.
nailingjello@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Thomas didn’t make lightweight guides.
daannii@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
timestatic@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Just use CoMaps or something else based on OpenStreetMap
kossa@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
No, it’s routing you along businesses who paid for you to be routed along there. They crank up the monetization of maps.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
That happened a couple times to me lately as well.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
That’s awesome and I kinda want one.
Pre-Google I had a 5-county (Chicago area) map book - a spiral-bound fat book of maps.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What in the Ronco is that? I’m a state gazetteer kinda guy. Also used the county street atlas for local getting around.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was certainly a mapbook pro, but, not with one of those.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Cool!
mastod0n@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where’s my Falk crowd?
Jerb322@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I used to use paper maps all the time, but I’ve never seen this thing before. Pretty cool.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That looks a lot nicer than the big foldable pieces of s*** that we all had.
three@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You are literally posting in a community with the word shit in the name.
SHIT
Now your turn.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The most common ones were books that you’d flip east/west through, or skip to the indicated page for north/south, right?
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
By the time I started driving, we already had gps, but I do remember my dad pulling those folder or foldable maps when driving somewhere for the first time. His advice on how to read these things was “Look for the river crossings. It usually doesn’t matter much which road you take, you will always end up at the same crossings.”
And this is why, when planning a road trip in the pre-waze days, I would always check the river crossings first and when is a low traffic time to cross them, because you don’t want to be stuck for 2 hours because an ungodly amount of drivers need to be squeezed through a narrow tunnel.
But nowadays it’s hardly relevant anymore, only to make sure you don’t take too long of a lunch/dinner break or get stuck in said situation.