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re: Do you still use a road atlas?
Posted on 11/10/25 at 1:34 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 11/10/25 at 1:34 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I haven’t used a road atlas in many years. However, I still keep one in my truck for emergencies. Sometimes, GPS just goes to shite for no reason, and I wouldn’t want to depend on it in an emergency.
That reminds me….I should probably try to find an updated version.
That reminds me….I should probably try to find an updated version.
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Posted on 11/10/25 at 1:38 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I keep one in the car on road trips as a backup . Wife also likes to mark what highways we've previously traveled on. It's also been handy for rerouting during traffic jams.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 1:44 pm to Scruffy
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I keep one in my car for emergency purposes.
Same here.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 1:49 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Back in the stone age I got Triptik planners from AAA that were basically the maps I needed for each trip.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 1:54 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I had one for years but with the advent of GPS I finally just chucked it. They are really interesting to look at though.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 2:01 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I have some Mapsco maps in the trunk of my car, but I haven’t used them in years.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 2:04 pm to sidewalkside
Posted on 11/10/25 at 2:05 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I've gotten so used to using Google Maps now I wonder sometimes how I found places back before it existed 
Posted on 11/10/25 at 2:19 pm to SaintlyTiger88
carry one in my RV incase my google maps quits on me.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 2:23 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I have one in my car in the event my phone is lost, dies, or GPS is out. I have never opened it, but it stays with me.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 2:24 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I use both and yes, I am old
Posted on 11/10/25 at 2:30 pm to Rex Feral
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No, but I really like looking at maps.
I love topographical maps. The Delorme gazetteers are great, I have one for most states.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 2:38 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Use them previously, but now rely use GPS or do planning from online maps.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 3:16 pm to BOSCEAUX
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Not anymore but when I was a kid and we went on long driving vacations I was the atlas jockey. Helped me get really good at geography. Read that fricker cover to cover.
Same here. I'd read that atlas the whole trip. My game was to pick two random cities and then try to quickest route. No wonder kids these days have no problem solving skills.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 3:53 pm to SaintlyTiger88
phone service in N Louisiana was bad while trying to find rural sites for work. went to Lafayette Shooters b/c that's where i used to buy road atlas from in early 2000's. The girl working had no idea what a road atlas even was......lol
Posted on 11/10/25 at 3:55 pm to Spankum
These were awesome. Delormes, topo maps of anything you want.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 3:55 pm to Aeolian Vocalion
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I loved to use those 'state' atlas books, like:
The Roads of Texas
The Roads of Louisiana
The Roads of Arkansas
Still have them, and would use them again if I made a road trip. Allowed me to take all sorts of isolated farm roads and explore around, without getting mired in circles. Before those books, I would sometimes be driving on roads that gradually became unpaved or shell roads, then became dirt roads, and then came to dead-ends.
Used to be that most state rest areas had maps int he bathroom building.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 3:55 pm to SaintlyTiger88
No, trip ticks from Triple A....
Posted on 11/10/25 at 3:56 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Hell yea man i dont rely on them fancy motorized vehiculars neither i ride bareback like a REAL MAN
Posted on 11/10/25 at 3:57 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Yes, truckers atlas has lists of low bridges and weight restricted routes. The maps part is useful as well with trying to figure out truck routes to strange locations in the rural northeast and mountain areas off the interstates.
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