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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Great Mapquest story: my two friends and I were driving from Gainesville Fl to Tuscaloosa, Al to visit another friend in college. I was in charge of the ‘quest, and we had the directions set on when to light the 6 blunts we rolled for the drive (aligned with the longest periods without having to turn, 70+ miles on the highway, etc).

Well, I missed the 0.2mi immediate exit before the 125mi straightaway and lit that next blunt. Long story short, we went like a hundred miles in the wrong direction because I told him we were good for a couple of hours.

My B

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Oh shit! Hilarious!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

We didn't have a printer so we wrote down the instructions and memorized them as much as possible because we understood that not paying attention to the road would get someone killed.

The same people can't get their fucking eyes off their cellphone now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'd just use good old maps. Had a provincial one in my car plus a few city maps. Actually still have them there just in case I need to fall back.

Hell, I even delivered pizza in a city I lived in for a while but wasn't very familiar with. Most deliveries involved looking for the street name in the index and getting grid coordinates to find it on the map on the wall of the place I worked, which I then related back to a street I knew how to get to and I memorized the last part to get to the side street I'd never heard of before that.

Only reason I started using Waze was after getting my last speeding ticket and deciding it was time to get that app I'd read about where police traps were crowd sourced. I like still having that general sense of direction so that following the suggested route is optional for getting to be final destination (though it does also help having a map to be able to check what side streets are connected).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My grandmother still does this for some gods forsaken reason and somehow is worse at it than me. Mind you ive been having to track down adresses for work for about 3 years now but c'mon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I went camping with my family last week somewhere with no signal. I got there fine, but when it was time to leave I had to just follow roads a general direction until I got signal again (and backtrack the hour I went the opposite way).

I had downloaded an offline map on Google maps but it just wasn't working. Wish I had printed it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I am astounded people managed to drive around Japan without gps. The signage is awful here. Even with gps it can be a struggle at times.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

i used to have to buy printed maps from the magazine racks at the grocery stores back in the 80s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

i have a shoe box full of them. every time i think about throwing them out, i can't. some of them are the nice laminated ones!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And you had to figure out how to fold those.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Forgot about that half the time something was folded wrong

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Oohhhh I forgot about those!!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone ought to try driving somewhere they haven't been before without bringing gps or even printed maps.

Look at a country/state map to get an idea of the general direction beforehand, but then otherwise just drive there and follow the signs as you get closer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's pretty much how I do it. The interstates in the US make it simple to get to just about any major city, and friends might boggle a bit, but they can tell you what the minor highway/street you need to look for and give you a landmark.

...It really drives home how the old horror movies weren't unrealistic in folks getting lost randomly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I remember the 80s or early 90s, where there were phonebooks in pay phone booths. The first or last pages were maps of the local area and an index of street names, so if you needed to find "groove street" it would be on map 5 section F3.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Oh that’s nothing. Before then we had to commit landmarks to memory and just call back on it as you’re driving.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And the scaling was fucked all to hell.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I remember navigating for my dad as a kid using a physical street map. It was a great feeling tracking your position on the map and telling the driver what turn to make next.

But nothing beats the convenience of having a small rectangle that automatically calculates routes for you, especially when travelling alone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, when I lived in the US I did that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rand McNally has just entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

In Rand McNally, people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wait until you find out what people did before computers

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Had to make a stop at AAA to pick up an atlas before leaving for long road trips.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Although depending on where you are you could just memorize the route. A lot of the cross state travel is just a matter of getting on a highway and staying there for 10 hours. (At least in the US)

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bruh, I remember being excited to be the one to stay up in the passenger seat with the atlas overnight making callouts from the highlighted route. A child never felt so important, needed, and critical to the operation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

look at what they took from us

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It was pretty great. Tried to have me drive through a city park lake once to get to a movie theater I hadn't been to before. A+

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Mapquest is still around, they have an app

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