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My dad w his drawer full of old road atlases: “WHATS UP NOW MOTHERFUCKERS!!?”
Digital maps would still work, you'd just have to know where you are. Just like old books
Like in the before time?
In the before times we barely had mobile phones to go with the digital maps. We were out there printing Mappy itineraries into a stack you'd better not lose
Map Quest.
I actually considered getting a couple maps like that lol. Nostalgia, but also redundancy. Also it would be kind of funny to fold out one of those giant maps while everyone else just whips up google maps. We're going retro, bitches.
Looks up Here in the map index... D3 sees this side of the map starts at 13, flips map over, finds D and 3, looks up and slams on brakes before rear ending an even more lost pedestrian.
"You should watch where you're driving," my passenger says before their eyes return to their phone.
Honks horn, pedestrian is startled out of examining their map, gives a sheepish wave of apology and speeds off. Return to map, notice there's a big traffic jam on the intended route, turn down a side street instead, thanking map for helping.
Store the maps in a laptop case so people think you are breaking out the pc.
Also I love maps and as a kid, in the 80s I had maps of just about everywhere, I collected park maps from all the places I hiked and had geological survey maps of the state I lived in. I kept all the maps in the back of my Datsun 510 station wagon. I got lost very often when driving but I would pull over a dig through the maps till I figured out where I was. I did have one of those big roll up maps that you see in old schools, where you could pull it down and it would roll itself back up, but it from the 40s and it's Africa so there is not any real information on it but it was fun to haul it out un roll it and say " nah I don't think that's it" and let it flap around as it rolls up.
I went looking for an image of my map, and found one. https://oldnewhouse.com/products/vintage-classroom-pull-down-map-of-africa-2196?srsltid=AfmBOoqDLztG46dLMq7Eh-hPMAtz0SEnlpnpdGQUu4GIuE5qwMe7MnqT
My map doesn't look as nice because someone kept it in the back of a Datsun station wagon and used it as a joke prop.
You have to get ones that used to be at rest areas and stuff that are comically large and impractical to use in a car. Much less try to fold.
Your username confuses me.
I have two sets of these that I use. When one of them's for when I'm off road and off-grid and very little works. The other one so that way I can have my kids look at just general road atlases as we travel quite a bit they enjoy seeing and trying to find where we're at. They will come in handy in case of anything happening as far as connectivity and stuff like that.
Protip, you can use the app comaps on android. It downloads and stores the maps for the regions you want entirely offline. The off-road maps are stunning where I am, detail far beyond what google has
Wish they had a desktop version
Edit - apparently there is on flathub now, nice
Oh sweet I had been waiting for that!
Normally I use onX for off road. It's great so far.
Edit: not sure why all the open street maps show my address incorrectly. It's frustrating. I had to change it in one app already, not creating another account to add this one change.
If you contribute the change to OSM, it'll update on them all. I believe that's what comaps edits do, hence using the openstreetmap account instead of comap account
OnX looks great, price is wild tho