Recently I’ve been thinking back to when I’d roadtrip around, like 6-12 hour drives, to meet online friends. The MapQuest directions would be 2 or 3 pages long, but that wasn’t manageable since I was driving, often at night. I’d write down the highways, and the miles I’d be on them and maybe the last 3 streets on a small piece of notepad paper and just hope for the best. No idea now how it ever worked. 😁
I remember my parents planning long journeys using some piece of software (AA branded I think) that would print out all your turns, intersections and distance between them (in the late 90s).
In the mid 00s when I needed to navigate myself, I would plan it out on a map (Melways crew rise up!) and write myself prompts on paper in big writing with arrows so I could glance at it while driving.
Basically exactly like modern sat nav but without the live traffic.
Recently I’ve been thinking back to when I’d roadtrip around, like 6-12 hour drives, to meet online friends. The MapQuest directions would be 2 or 3 pages long, but that wasn’t manageable since I was driving, often at night. I’d write down the highways, and the miles I’d be on them and maybe the last 3 streets on a small piece of notepad paper and just hope for the best. No idea now how it ever worked. 😁
I remember my parents planning long journeys using some piece of software (AA branded I think) that would print out all your turns, intersections and distance between them (in the late 90s).
In the mid 00s when I needed to navigate myself, I would plan it out on a map (Melways crew rise up!) and write myself prompts on paper in big writing with arrows so I could glance at it while driving.
Basically exactly like modern sat nav but without the live traffic.