I remember going to a town marked on a rand mcnally map in British Columbia once, it was small but clearly a settlement. This was before the days of smartphone

I remember going to a town marked on a rand mcnally map in British Columbia once, it was small but clearly a settlement. This was before the days of smartphone maps Roads became unpaved, then turned into dirt tracks, then eventually little more than grass. Eventually got there and there was a single ruin of a shed next to a railway line. There had never been a settlement there - I suspect it was a copyright trap. We had a compass, a fix on our location, and enough to keep warm and fed and were less than a day’s walk from the main road, but the point is people got lost and misdirected by maps well before the days of GPS and google maps.