Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS?

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• Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I used to use paper maps all the time, but I’ve never seen this thing before. Pretty cool.

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That looks a lot nicer than the big foldable pieces of s*** that we all had.

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    • three@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You are literally posting in a community with the word shit in the name.

      SHIT

      Now your turn.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The most common ones were books that you’d flip east/west through, or skip to the indicated page for north/south, right?

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  • Pringles@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve used maps, but not whatever this is.

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• hayvan@piefed.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We had maps that fold thousand times.

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  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Folding maps were the USB-A of it’s age. We would always fold it wrong the first time.

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    • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i still get to live that life with blueprints at work

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    • assembly@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fold it the wrong way and it’d eventually start to split

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    On land, same. When I needed a map on a boat I had a chart table.

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What in the Ronco is that? I’m a state gazetteer kinda guy. Also used the county street atlas for local getting around.

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• dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Recalculating.”

  twist twist twist roll roll roll

  “Recalculating.”

  twist roll twist etc.

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• Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • kossa@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, it’s routing you along businesses who paid for you to be routed along there. They crank up the monetization of maps.

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  • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Check your settings, maybe this option is to blame

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  • timestatic@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just use CoMaps or something else based on OpenStreetMap

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  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That happened a couple times to me lately as well.

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• JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s it called? I want one.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  no but i had a little book.

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  • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We had a very hefty book.

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    • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mine came with the phone guide, but it was smaller. Maybe 1/4th as thick and half the size.

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    • nailingjello@piefed.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thomas didn’t make lightweight guides.

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• Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cool!

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was certainly a mapbook pro, but, not with one of those.

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