So funny I almost put it in the “Joke” area

Using a map is healthier? I guess this assumes she doesn't get hit by a bus while stopped to read her map

I spent 30 years driving trucks for a living, started long before GPS was a thing and affordable. I had a backpack filled with book and folded maps, made my living doing 'local' deliveries using them. Don't get me wrong, I love GPS now, but I could survive as long as they still make paper maps.

hello

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could never fold them back properly.

There are many folks now, who cannot read a map, as it may as well be some strange graphical print.

I never use the car GPS for directions (only 2/3 even have it, the 2007 I ordered without a screen didn't want any cluttering the dash). I leave it so that the map is oriented northward. I want it to be that way, so that if I look, I know where I am. I can also use it to see if I am able to cut a corner and avoid traffic. It would be like looking at a paper map. Many a time I've had a passenger ask me what's up with your GPS, it's old? Because it's displaying like a map, not the direction of travel.

Times have changed, I get it. Even when watching a Disney film made for kids, from 1992, the main character drinks and drives and speeds. It's not altogether inaccurate, it's how it was at the time.

Can't argue with that. Carrying that backpack is what has contributed to your longevity, right??
I once had a job delivering to residents in one metro area. The only thing that worked was a map book the realtors used. The downside of that is you have to have one for every metro area one visits and they likely don't exist for small towns. Most commercial deliveries are likely on mapped roads.
I graduated to a hand held GPS and DeLorme maps and Microsoft maps.
A little cumbersome, but it worked - except for the diversion thru a corn field in PA. That's a whole 'nother story.
Then I interfaced a laptop CRM program with the map program and hand held. Now I had the "modern" GPS in 2 pieces of hardware and 3 programs with the CRM and Microsoft providing the routing.
Yes, I am with you, I LOVE MY NUVIs.

Rand McNally Road Atlas & Hagstrom Maps for all local NYC streets (Defunct in 2022).

My wife has a built in GPS in her Grand Cherokee and refuses to learn how to use it,
she uses her phone's map instead.

absolutely

if one can't locate where he/she is on the paper map, it is useless.

Never had a problem locating myself on a map. Of course it helps if you know the city, even the state that you are located in.

I can't read the dang things. Everything is too damn small. When I was young I had "better than perfect" vision. When I first noticed my vision was getting funky I went to the doctor and was told I had 20/20 vision. (Things at 20 feet look like they are 20 feet away.) He said I had obviously been used to 20/15 or even 20/10 vision so "perfect" vision seemed poor to me. Of course these days I freaking OLD and pretty much everything is too damn small. Maps are a noo-go for me. My wife, however, is a total map person. She always takes maps with her on our multi-state, multi-week camping trips every year.

My wife is a map person with bad eyes too. She usually carries DeLorme atlas books for the states where we travel. She uses this page magnifier that makes it easy for her to read fine print:

https://www.amazon.com/Dimeho-Magnifying-Lightweight-Magnifi...

It's flat and works as a page marker as well.

My wife is into Geocaching, and uses both a handheld Garmin and DeLorme map books. Some Geocaching contests require finding a cache in the DeLorme grid squares.