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Road Map or GPS
#666676 July 22nd 2014 9:15 am
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How many of you are still using road maps for traveling, trips and vacations or are you using cell phone Apps and GPS devices today? I am sure many of you can remember the old style fold out maps covering the van dash or the girl friend being the navigator with it. cheers


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Callahan #666682 July 22nd 2014 11:27 am
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You need both. You need to look at a map to see where you are in relation to your surroundings and where you are going.

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Lionvan #666684 July 22nd 2014 11:49 am
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Back in the day there was no gps.
I remember driving across country and buying a new map when we reached each state. Then you have a huge mess of maps all folded the wrong way everywhere in the van. Thats what makes it real though. Most people cant even navigate at all without gps
I personally hate gps as it send me the wrong way and that never happens when Im reading a map
real maps
FTW!!

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Lionvan #666690 July 22nd 2014 12:25 pm
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Last Summer I drove a van I bought 2,694 mi from BC to Ontario. No GPS, no cell phone just a road map I bought from a corner store. Getting lost and going off route is part of the adventure as you have stop and ask directions and meet with the locals. If I had a GPS I would have just zoomed on through not talking to anyone. I did miss one turn that cost me an additional 28 mi off my route but hey that was part of the fun.

Looking back on the trip I wish I would have had a CB Radio as there are vast areas of unpopulated areas on northern Ontario roads lots of wilderness and nothing else. Basically you run out of gas or breakdown your in BIG trouble. frown



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MACE #666692 July 22nd 2014 12:46 pm
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I was looking at one the one top of the line GPS's from Garmin that has all the bells and whistles but at $329.99 US, compared to the price of a roadmap that doesn't need batteries and will never die on you. The winner is a no brainer.

I agree real maps FTW!!

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Callahan #666694 July 22nd 2014 1:10 pm
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Woof yeah thats pricey
Here in SF there are like 4 roads all named
4th ave terrace
This will have the gps hella confused and 5 out of 6 times
It send me the wrong way which leads to an argument as
to who is to blame for driving to the wrong county, then
I bang my head against the steering wheel a few times and curse myself for not just buying a map like a smart person
we rely to much on electronic crap and refuse to learn
at least me sometimes.
bring back the 80's

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MACE #666696 July 22nd 2014 1:30 pm
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When you travel stop at the first rest area in a new state. They usually are Welcome Centers and have free maps.

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MACE #666698 July 22nd 2014 1:45 pm
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The next generation won't know how to read a road map or back-up their car or parallel park with out some tech device helping them. Which is ok as we have to separate the men from the boys. lol

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Callahan #666709 July 22nd 2014 4:37 pm
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Back in the early days of Vannin I had a Road atlas in the van that had all roads in the US in it.


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Callahan #666714 July 22nd 2014 5:15 pm
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DrBob #666715 July 22nd 2014 5:21 pm
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GPS is my friend,lost my co pilot in 1997 and gps works just fine for me,my moto is to keep moving in a van and it has never got me lost,i have a tom tom one and update every month for free and I do test it by going off route just to see if it will get me back on course and it does everytime never fails,some just don't know or want to know how they work,it helps navigate around road repairs and such and she talks to me(nags me when off course)I love it and it make driving alone much safer. cheers


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Greywolf #666717 July 22nd 2014 5:35 pm
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I'm with Greywolf...GPS is the only way I fly ..in my dump truck, pickup or van....dig the MPH and other features also.. yay


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Callahan #666719 July 22nd 2014 5:39 pm
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I prefer maps over GPS or phone apps. I recently got an apple iPhone that has a "maps" application and I admit i use that if I am trying to find someplace when I don't have a map or don't have access to a printer to print out mapquest directions, but I still prefer a good old map. ThomasGuide to be precise.

I have been burned by GPS before. tTold to go the wrong ay down a one-way street, told to drive across a street with a cement divider, told to drive through a wall, told to turn onto non-existent streets…..


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Callahan #666731 July 22nd 2014 6:11 pm
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I love the gps my dad has in his semi... Shows roads that semis can go down


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Callahan #666736 July 22nd 2014 7:03 pm
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For me, its both. . . GPS & folding maps. GPS is more day to day and maps for trips .


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Callahan #666739 July 22nd 2014 7:28 pm
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Originally Posted by Callahan
Last Summer I drove a van I bought 2,694 mi from BC to Ontario. No GPS, no cell phone just a road map I bought from a corner store. Getting lost and going off route is part of the adventure as you have stop and ask directions and meet with the locals. If I had a GPS I would have just zoomed on through not talking to anyone. I did miss one turn that cost me an additional 28 mi off my route but hey that was part of the fun.


This is the way I like to travel, NO maps, No GPS If I want to turn left I turn. If I want to stop to eat, If I want a hotel or camp my van. I left San Diego on a short test trip of the red van, 1st day I ended up in Tombstone AZ. The next mornin got up got in the driver seat got to the freeway. The next biggest decision I had was do I turn left or right ..... well I turned right & that started a 7 week 6700 mile road trip to the Florida Keys & back. No maps No GPS.

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frscke1 #666742 July 22nd 2014 7:46 pm
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Originally Posted by frscke1
This is the way I like to travel, NO maps, No GPS If I want to turn left I turn. If I want to stop to eat, If I want a hotel or camp my van. I left San Diego on a short test trip of the red van, 1st day I ended up in Tombstone AZ. The next mornin got up got in the driver seat got to the freeway. The next biggest decision I had was do I turn left or right ..... well I turned right & that started a 7 week 6700 mile road trip to the Florida Keys & back. No maps No GPS.


I agree completely. The best things in life are unplanned and found in the backroads and off the beaten path. If I ever get the time to do just a general pleasure drive, that is how I would do it.


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Callahan #666743 July 22nd 2014 9:04 pm
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Here's a fun map, no roads just cool little pics of places you should stop and see in each State.

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Callahan #666750 July 22nd 2014 10:32 pm
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Actually, I use three articles when traveling these days. Just got a new GPS before my Florida trip at the beginning of this month, a Magellan that I can program in the size, height and weight of my travel trailer, seemed to work real well. Also print out a map quest route to check it against, and then the wife likes to sit in the passenger seat with an atlas in her lap the whole trip. Between the three, we seem to get most any place just fine. Also, the GPS is nice when you're someplace you don't know to punch in POIs and find places like particular restaurants, grocery stores or department stores.


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Callahan #666772 July 23rd 2014 8:42 am
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Maps, atlas, and the print out of the google map!
We also have a Steve-Steve in the VAN...and even with all that we sometimes get an adVANture on our trip!

Part of the fun of VANNING and going to different eVANts is the journey itself. We have seen many little things in this country that have made us smile, and found little out of the way places to enjoy. With a GPS, you miss a lot of that...

...plus, GPS doesn't tell you where the rest areas are!


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Suzie-BGfNY-IN #666780 July 23rd 2014 9:39 am
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My Garmin tells me where rest areas are.

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Callahan #666794 July 23rd 2014 10:52 am
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Mine too. . . . .


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Callahan #666804 July 23rd 2014 12:37 pm
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I prefer my GPS, since it brings me back on the route when I make an error and go the wrong way.
And travelling the US without (or as recentley in the UK with driving on the left side) would be much difficult using a map.

But I still can read a map and normally figure out, where I'm (still oldschool).


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Callahan #666841 July 24th 2014 12:52 am
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We carry all three on board. Maps, GPS and phone app. But we use the map most of the time. We're "shunpikers" and only run the interstates and the big roads when we're forced to or we're pressed for time. Now that we're retireded we have more time and try to travel during the week when we can. cool
The maps are great and help us avoid the drone and the nothingness of the interstate. The small towns we pass thru on the state roads are sometimes pictures from the past, the little "mom-n-pop" diners serving home cooked, spotting a old van in someones backyard, having people at a country store say, "I had a van back in the day".
And it's just safer and more fun to loafer along. You can't really program a GPS to find "FUN".

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