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Maps, for starters. Sometimes I wonder how I would have fared if I had started international travel before smartphones were a thing. Hell, my daily life would b
by aixi 6y ago
Maps, for starters. Sometimes I wonder how I would have fared if I had started international travel before smartphones were a thing. Hell, my daily life would be straight up impossible.
- AstralStorm 6y agoThere were, and still are, standalone GPS mapping and navigation devices. And also paper maps. That said smartphones being multifunction are very useful, and somewhat a security nightmare.
- oblio 6y agoPaper maps suck. They're bulky, unwieldy, tend to break at the seams, they only cover one specific place and you need to buy good quality ones, which isn't always easy. Ah, and it's annoying to write things down on them, since you're basically breaking them/obscuring parts of the map. GPS devices are ok, but then again, they have most of the same security (and especially privacy) issues.
- aixi 6y agoI remember the time when I needed a paper map to actually know where the buses went back in my home country. They would sell you guides that would routinely get updated, so you had to purchase a new one every six months or so. It was not convenient at all!