buy a map of a certain area, your local library will be able to get one for
you. They may have to borrow it from another library, so allow plenty of time
(and maps are harder to borrow than books), but for those who prefer a map that
they can unfold and crawl around on rather than trying to keep track of things
on that little bitty screen while waiting forever for the next view to load,
this is a very nice option. Not to mention some of those internet maps are not
as accurate as they should be -- remember when MapQuest was sending RVs down a
narrow dead-end road on the wrong side of the lake?
In the debate over driving directions: For me the main use of driving
directions is to help me locate the destination on the map -- for instance it's
fairly easy to find I-5 on the map and follow it to where it crosses College
St., but if all I have is "Huntamer Park" it could be ANY freaking little green
dot on the map. Once I find my "target," I work out my own route (in this case
it would be from the opposite direction), often involving public transportation
or bike trails. I don't REQUIRE driving directions, but they often make the
mapwork easier. (The same could be said of latitude and longitude, but more
maps are going to show I-5 and College St. Back to the library...)
For what it's worth.
Weird Dana
--- Otis' Friends
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> I think many letterboxers tend to be map people. Even if people don't
> want to buy maps, though, the internet is a very powerful tool.
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