I used to use paper maps all the time, but I've never seen this thing before. Pretty cool.
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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.
That looks a lot nicer than the big foldable pieces of s*** that we all had.
You are literally posting in a community with the word shit in the name.
SHIT
Now your turn.
All I see is ****
Maybe I should see if it also censors my password?
hunter2
I have nerve damage in my hands. I use a lot of voice dict ation and the default has curse word censored. I don't care enough to change it.
Frankly it's shocking to me that so many people on Lemmy first off don't know this and second off care so very much that they have to bring it up whenever it happens.
But either way thank you for your copious amounts of ableism on this fine day. I needed that jolt to wake me up.
Sounds like you should get a better app to transcribe your words instead of whining about people being ableist
No I'm pointing out ableists are being ableist
You seem to be deeply offended that you saw some asterixes on the internet.
I mean, for real, is your life so hopeless and empty that mocking the disabled is all you have in it?
I mean that's cool and all, you got to do you. But it seems kind of sad when you could be getting an education or contributing positively on the internet or something.
Idk.
Next time, before I post, I'll be sure to gather up all the things I don't know before I press send.
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Shit! :33)
The most common ones were books that you'd flip east/west through, or skip to the indicated page for north/south, right?
Man I'm sure it was something like that. Honestly at this point I mostly remember what MapQuest looked like if we wanted to go old school.
You talking about a MAPSCO?
We don't use nearly as many genericized trademarks where I'm from. I know that several publishers used this technique to make a road atlas of the Czech Republic in the 90s and 00s.
We had maps that fold thousand times.
Folding maps were the USB-A of it's age. We would always fold it wrong the first time.
i still get to live that life with blueprints at work
You don't just roll your technical documents? The plotter makes it pre rolled and so I just let it do that
power company that has been operating for +100 years, we fold the prints and put them in folders to get stored in file cabinets, sometimes i work with prints that are 70 years old
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.
It's like USB-A on nightmare mode
Fold it the wrong way and it’d eventually start to split
On land, same. When I needed a map on a boat I had a chart table.
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.
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.
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.
I've used maps, but not whatever this is.
What's it called? I want one.
It's a map in a roll chart holder. These days they're used in rally and off road racing, and sometimes motorcycle touring.
"Recalculating."
twist twist twist roll roll roll
"Recalculating."
twist roll twist etc.
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.
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.
no but i had a little book.
We had a very hefty book.
Mine came with the phone guide, but it was smaller. Maybe 1/4th as thick and half the size.
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.
Check your settings, maybe this option is to blame
Just use CoMaps or something else based on OpenStreetMap
No, it's routing you along businesses who paid for you to be routed along there. They crank up the monetization of maps.
I was certainly a mapbook pro, but, not with one of those.
What in the Ronco is that? I'm a state gazetteer kinda guy. Also used the county street atlas for local getting around.
Cool!
Where's my Falk crowd?
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