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I think question here is if Paper or Digital Format is better. The majority of arguements we know, but there is also one more interesting question. Online and O
by missy 15y ago
I think question here is if Paper or Digital Format is better. The majority of arguements we know, but there is also one more interesting question. Online and Offline?
No matter currently how good digital copies of a map are, items like mobiles have technical issues and if i m stuck somewhere without signal or the battery is dead, a paper map is all we can use. Thinking of being stuck in the middle of nowhere with a potentially default phone , i would still always have a paper map in the car cause the pain of being without one when something like that happens is worse then the convience of it being on my phone all other times.
- jleader 15y agoOn the other hand, digital maps have a huge advantage in the level of detail they can provide over a much wider area. I still carry a Thomas Brothers street atlas of Los Angeles in my car as a backup. If you haven't seen the old Thomas Guides, they're a wire-bound book of a couple hundred or so pages; mostly a grid of detailed map pages, each covering something like a 5x5 mile square of the city. They also have index maps, freeway maps that just show freeways and their off-ramps, dozens of pages of street-name indices, etc. If I take a few hours drive (say, to Phoenix, or San Diego, or Las Vegas, or the SF Bay area), I probably won't have such detailed paper maps with me, but digital devices would be able to provide a similar level of detail in any of those places.