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I'd hate to try to pan and zoom on a map to try to navigate using an e-ink kindle with the refresh rate and flashing it's just barely usable as an ebook reader

• jacquesm 7y ago
  Try panning and zooming on a piece of paper... that's the benchmark here. I've had the pleasure of toting along a couple of kilos of maps of all the roads in Europe for years, I would not part with my TomTom for the best set of maps and the most elegant of night lights.
  • chrisseaton 7y ago
    > Try panning and zooming on a piece of paper You can open a paper map up and look at a hundred km squares at once at a resolution no display can match.
    • jacquesm 7y ago
      But you rarely need to see a hundred square km all at once. You almost always end up folding the map to some area of interest after you've located where that is (which can take some time, with the crappy lettering on most maps and the lack of a good index, which if it is there tends to get out of date fairly rapidly). I really don't miss maps. Though for backup purposes they are probably still quite useful.
  • rtkwe 7y ago
    Using a map for hiking and for road driving are pretty different scenarios. On a GPS for car driving I don't need to really look around much it already knows where I am and I can just search for where I'm going. Hiking there's not really anything to search for and things like battery life are a bigger problem.