Real Maps

[trblshooter]

By real, I mean the 10 footers that can double as a shade screen. When was the last time you guys used one? Siri has been my friend for a while but I did some hiking with the kids recently that restored my faith in my ability to read a map and shoot a bearing.

[BradM]

By real, I mean the 10 footers that can double as a shade screen. When was the last time you guys used one? Siri has been my friend for a while but I did some hiking with the kids recently that restored my faith in my ability to read a map and shoot a bearing.

I deal with maps constantly. And I don't travel. Lol

[YALE]

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[trblshooter]

Hey make fun all you want but this will soon be a lost art like tuning a carburetor or writing in cursive.

[BradM]

I'm not making fun, I work with property tax maps all day. I love maps.

[whitetrash]

I keep a mapsco(sp) in the truck at all times. GPS and google are great, when they work, but a paper map has never failed me

[Sleeper]

On most of todays highways. Phone or gps. As soon as i leave a road or go into heavily wooded area's Give me the old 100 fold paper map.

Im sure the better gps made for outdoors stuff are nice, but i cant afford one and maps are cheap. IT was fun to hit a new state and get a paper map back in the day.

[03mustangdude]

Always google. Save maps to phone for all of texas so I dont even have to have signal to use them.

[Forever_frost]

I keep a mapsco(sp) in the truck at all times. GPS and google are great, when they work, but a paper map has never failed me

Same here. I have my tablet, gps and mapsco

[Jose]

I remember back when I was a kid in the 80's, traveling cross country on summer vacations and depending on a big State Farm map that my dad would get every year for free. I was the navigator on a lot of those trips and a couple of times getting lost by accident inadvertently showed us some beautiful parts of the country.

In the 90's I started doing some long trips by myself and similarly depended on maps to get me from point a to point b. Later in the 90's I switched to printed out maps from Yahoo and such downloaded from the internet. Now a days I don't know if I cold go back to printed maps and wouldn't want to travel without my GPS or smart phone.

Definitely navigation by maps, IMO, is a dying art. I would really like to be able to learn to navigate long distances when I hike but need to get some good maps before doing so.

[Jose]

I keep a mapsco(sp) in the truck at all times. GPS and google are great, when they work, but a paper map has never failed me

Ya but it seems like they are only good for a few years until new construction in the metroplex renders some navigation difficult.

[Baron Von Crowder]

Rabbit: Look, all I'm saying is don't fold the maps.
Allan Sanders: I didn't fold the maps.
Rabbit: Yeah, well Kansas is a mess, there's a big crease right through Wichita. ROLL the maps.

[Kart21]

Hey make fun all you want but this will soon be a lost art like tuning a carburetor or writing in cursive.

I keep a mapsco(sp) in the truck at all times. GPS and google are great, when they work, but a paper map has never failed me

On most of todays highways. Phone or gps. As soon as i leave a road or go into heavily wooded area's Give me the old 100 fold paper map.

Im sure the better gps made for outdoors stuff are nice, but i cant afford one and maps are cheap. IT was fun to hit a new state and get a paper map back in the day.

Go into the boonies of Co. and North N.M. as in hiking and see where your GPS leads you too. Map and compass Boy Scout.

or your battery dies ect.

And I think 1 out of 8 Goggle maps or Map Quest sends you too the wrong place.

[The King]

For old school road maps, county 911 maps were among the best.

[trblshooter]

Go into the boonies of Co. and North N.M. as in hiking and see where your GPS leads you too. Map and compass Boy Scout.

That's actually where I learned to shoot a bearing, Philmont Scout Ranch.