• Nougat@fedia.io
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    Before MapQuest, you’d carry around a six county atlas, and a state map. If you had to go somewhere outside the metro area, you’d use the state map to get to the city, then stop at the first gas station you saw there to look at their map on the wall, or ask to look at their phone book for the map in there.

    Ew, people.

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      Better yet, stop at the rest stop at the state border and pick up a free state map, which included insets of the large cities.

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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          They never restock them though. Somehow they are always out. (At least for the last few years they have been)

          However, you can use OSM offline pretty easily and if you want a physical map you can print it. (For those of us who want control)