Co-pilot - Disappointed

Man, do these old timers annoy me on this forum. WTH do you need a map when you can use Google map on your smartphone and a dedicated truck GPS unit?

 

Maps went out with the landline.

 

call me an idiot, cuz that's exactly what i do. SET AND GO. and i've been driving 15 years.

cuz, ya see's. i've learned not to argue with copilot. it knows the streets better then me. and i've been just about everywhere in this country.

as for the question of what's wrong with a map. maps have no clue how to get you around town. unless you've got a huge library towing behind your cab. of very town in the country.

 

there are some really good POI files at www.poi-factory.com

 

http://www.laptopgpsworld.com/5091-how-add-custom-pois-copilot-live-android

 

I remember carrying a brief case full of city maps in the truck with me, map in hand at the old sweaty pay phone at the truck stop trying to find directions from someone who has never been off the block he grew up on in his life, hoping when you drive there you see actual street signs. Its fun to talk about the days before cell phones, ATM cards and GPSs when our trucks had no hood, no power and barely any heat but boy am I glad those days are over!

 

Covering the entire US and Canada down to street level in maps is an extreme task. I have maps for the Toronto, Montreal, Boston, and Philadelphia area, but to get obscure rural areas are rather difficult. I have a book for every road in Nova Scotia, but those books are not easy to find. Rand and those companies don't make them. Pus the space in your truck for hundreds of books and fold out maps? I use android mapping apps.

 

Covering the entire US and Canada down to street level in maps is an extreme task. I have maps for the Toronto, Montreal, Boston, and Philadelphia area, but to get obscure rural areas are rather difficult. I have a book for every road in Nova Scotia, but those books are not easy to find. Rand and those companies don't make them. Pus the space in your truck for hundreds of books and fold out maps? I use android mapping apps.

 

Thats how it used to be done. Hagstrom was the ones I purchased for NYC. They used to sell them at the red ball going into NJ on 80. I delivered swinging meat to the 5 Burroughs with them back in the day. Chicago was the one I could never get my hands on, they say that they were real expensive if you knew where to buy them.
And if you think that was nuts ask some of the old timers about the original rand mcnally book (IE: book miles). They were a stack of books about 3 inches thick that had all of the miles in between cities, I believe it was the miles between post office to post office if I remember right. They were thousands of dollars to buy.