And most of them can’t read a map anyway. Why bother when they can just plug in origin and destination on their GPS. But I do admire the ones who CAN READ MAPS and don’t rely entirely on GPS. At least their likely to be able to find where their going when their GPS is down.
Used to have the bound metro maps for the area I lived, in addition the large Ran McNally book of the US. Was fun as a kid, or teaching my kids, how to read, measure distance, and follow along when traveling. The only physical maps I use anymore is when visiting a foreign country – will get the walking maps for the cities we’re visiting.
I love my gps and phone, but I use a physical map as well. Recently I heard map sales are up, and the reason is that they’re actually useful to get an overview of the entire area. My job entails going to a LOT of places I’ve never been over a state wide area.
Uh huh. And last Friday I trusted Skynet Maps, which told me I could drive from Huntington, WV to Toledo, OH in 5 hours and routed me through Columbus during rush hour. Don’t trust Skynet. Stay on the interstate.
Always get out the real map to make sure the electronic one makes $cents. The electronic maps have a way of taking you on tour when you do not want to go on tour :-)
Goat can keep his maps and still be hip: put them on a mobile device. When I’m traveling anywhere, I render all my maps as PDF docs and load them on a Kindle. Works great.
Maps are very good for planning trips and they know the difference between a logging road and a freeway. Can’t tell you where you are or optimize travel time.
GPS tells the pizza delivery to turn off of 7th street onto State Line Road and go three miles. But State Line Road ends in one mile at the sleazy biker bar.
I taught land navigation with terrain maps that show the hills and rivers. I would make up stories about why the town was built here and why the highway bridge was there.
Even though I have a TomTom GPS in my car, I have a couple of road atlases under the driver’s seat and four or five maps in my glove compartment. To me, when you’re driving somewhere you’ve never been, there’s no such thing as “too much information” to get you there.
No GPS or ‘smart phone’, but using my computer Google map of place I’m going to, & print out a map. Have a huge map collection but changes in the last 40+ years make them useless.
My first brush with electronic directions was on a mapping site on the computer. It said turn south and go a half-mile, then turn right and go two miles, then make two left hand turns (a u-turn) and go back three miles to the four lane, then turn south and go one mile.I mentioned it to my coworkers, and one of them pointed out that it should have had me turn left on the four lane, go to Atlanta and go all the way around the beltway there, and come back one more mile than the drive north. It would have put me in the same location also.
It merits noting, there’s a lucrative market for antique maps. In fact, map collecting has seen something of a resurgence in the last decade. Personally, the map I’d love to put my hands on was actually a prop in the 1998 movie, “The Mask of Zorro,” a wall-sized map of the historical territory of Mexico, printed on fabric.
I have a bunch of (increasingly out-of-date) road maps, but they live in a desk drawer and no longer in my car. The only maps in my car are the ones that came included with the Owner’s Manual and related stuff in a folder, and I don’t use them. I check out any unfamiliar routes on computer before leaving home….
But it doesn’t matter, anyway. I’m an Old Fart and Goat looks like a kid to me (pun intended)….
To everyone in the comment section complaining because young people don’t know how maps work and rely entirely on GPS: first of all, this is simply false. Most of us know how to use a map and compass. Secondly, when accurate maps and compasses were new technology, people probably complained that new generations rely too much on them and wouldn’t know how to navigate “properly”, with sticks, stones, the sun, moon stars, and wind-most of which is fairly easy to learn, and even now this knowledge is not lost. So, please stop complaining.
BE THIS GUY almost 6 years ago
Sometimes when nobody younger than me is around, I take the atlas off the bookshelf and look at the maps.
Bilan almost 6 years ago
Lesson #2, lose the bow tie.
enigmamz almost 6 years ago
I like the bowtie.
rbmumsie almost 6 years ago
I still have a Thomas Guide behind the driver’s seat of my truck.
Templo S.U.D. almost 6 years ago
well, I’m a few years over 30 and I don’t own a physical map
oldpine52 almost 6 years ago
Owning a map wouldn’t help them, they wouldn’t know how to turn it on nor where to put the batteries.
knight1192a almost 6 years ago
And most of them can’t read a map anyway. Why bother when they can just plug in origin and destination on their GPS. But I do admire the ones who CAN READ MAPS and don’t rely entirely on GPS. At least their likely to be able to find where their going when their GPS is down.
Strawberry Hellcat: Gair I gall, ffon I’r anghall almost 6 years ago
And the secret to keeping those pesky kids from asking to borrow your vehicle is to drive a stick shift.
B UTTONS almost 6 years ago
My physical map always works without batteries and amongst all of the skyscrapers that are blocking GPS satellites.
daijoboo Premium Member almost 6 years ago
They love vinyl LPs and turntables. They’re now obsessed with typewriters. Globes, atlases, and road maps are next.
gbars70 almost 6 years ago
I have grown grandchildren that are confused by an analog clock. No lie.
gbars70 almost 6 years ago
At least Goat gets dressed up for a date, whereas his date shows up naked.
Packratjohn Premium Member almost 6 years ago
I enjoy maps.. period
Alexander the Good Enough almost 6 years ago
Come the next Carrington Event and they won’t be able to find their way out the front door of their house…
sirbadger almost 6 years ago
I remember when gas stations gave maps away for free and you could use them as place mats in the car.
WilliamRichmond almost 6 years ago
Maps will come in handy if a solar flare knocks out the satellites that help with GPS.
Troglodyte almost 6 years ago
Just when you think Pastis is beginning to lose direction, along comes this! :D
Say What Now‽ Premium Member almost 6 years ago
gary almost 6 years ago
Used to have the bound metro maps for the area I lived, in addition the large Ran McNally book of the US. Was fun as a kid, or teaching my kids, how to read, measure distance, and follow along when traveling. The only physical maps I use anymore is when visiting a foreign country – will get the walking maps for the cities we’re visiting.
Tue Elung-Jensen almost 6 years ago
Quite certain my parents don´t own a physical map anymore.
Defective Premium Member almost 6 years ago
I love my gps and phone, but I use a physical map as well. Recently I heard map sales are up, and the reason is that they’re actually useful to get an overview of the entire area. My job entails going to a LOT of places I’ve never been over a state wide area.
josballard almost 6 years ago
Not too many people using a map drive over the edge of a pier, which GPS users apparently do from time to time.
dwane.scoty1 almost 6 years ago
AtariDragon almost 6 years ago
Uh huh. And last Friday I trusted Skynet Maps, which told me I could drive from Huntington, WV to Toledo, OH in 5 hours and routed me through Columbus during rush hour. Don’t trust Skynet. Stay on the interstate.
nosirrom almost 6 years ago
Real men don’t use maps. That would be like asking for directions. ;-)
ralphkramden almost 6 years ago
We’ll see who’s lauhing when the grid goes down and their phones are useless!! We didn’t get this old by accident!!
Breadboard almost 6 years ago
Always get out the real map to make sure the electronic one makes $cents. The electronic maps have a way of taking you on tour when you do not want to go on tour :-)
Andrew Sleeth almost 6 years ago
Goat can keep his maps and still be hip: put them on a mobile device. When I’m traveling anywhere, I render all my maps as PDF docs and load them on a Kindle. Works great.
F-Flash almost 6 years ago
The green bowtie reminds me of money.
ktrabbit33 almost 6 years ago
Obsolete in our smarty-pants phone age; maps (maybe), film developing, payphones, phonebooths (where would Superman change now?)…
Ermine Notyours almost 6 years ago
I can’t even read paper maps without glasses now, so I feel older than Goat.
I thought Stephen said he can’t draw cars.
InuYugiHakusho almost 6 years ago
Oh, sure if you’d rather do it the “easy” way…
david_42 almost 6 years ago
Maps are very good for planning trips and they know the difference between a logging road and a freeway. Can’t tell you where you are or optimize travel time.
Fontessa almost 6 years ago
I used to be a map-maker, so I always use a paper map first. And I keep a compass in my car, too.
Darsan54 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Honestly, I love my Google Maps and GPS on my phone. Greatest invention ever, plus easing a totally irrational fear I have of being lost.
Ignatz Premium Member almost 6 years ago
A road map? Damned few over 30, too.
Greyhame almost 6 years ago
GPS tells the pizza delivery to turn off of 7th street onto State Line Road and go three miles. But State Line Road ends in one mile at the sleazy biker bar.
I taught land navigation with terrain maps that show the hills and rivers. I would make up stories about why the town was built here and why the highway bridge was there.
jessegooddog almost 6 years ago
I like paper maps, keep several in my car. And no scrolling around ads.
shushin almost 6 years ago
unless they are backpacking where there is no cell signal
Radish the wordsmith almost 6 years ago
Old goat is dating a young kid, maybe he should work for the Trump admin.
KEA almost 6 years ago
I do. Get lost once in an area without cellular data and you will too.
the lost wizard almost 6 years ago
She was just trying to get his goat and it worked.
Guilty Bystander almost 6 years ago
Even though I have a TomTom GPS in my car, I have a couple of road atlases under the driver’s seat and four or five maps in my glove compartment. To me, when you’re driving somewhere you’ve never been, there’s no such thing as “too much information” to get you there.
redback almost 6 years ago
some people act like there are no maps in GPS apps. Plus you can zoom in and out, and have different views. Is what you do with those maps.
By the way, I am over 30
posstockhoarder almost 6 years ago
Hey Nineteen
No we can’t dance together
No we can’t talk at all
falcon_370f almost 6 years ago
Maps have advantages, they never need a new battery, or fail when you lose the signal.
Banjo Gordy Premium Member almost 6 years ago
No GPS or ‘smart phone’, but using my computer Google map of place I’m going to, & print out a map. Have a huge map collection but changes in the last 40+ years make them useless.
pekenpug almost 6 years ago
Don’t let it bother you, Goat.She’s just jealous because she never learned to refold a road map.
Scott S almost 6 years ago
I have a road atlas AND a Garmin Nuvi.
dwkiser28603 almost 6 years ago
I still use maps and damn proud of it too!
Nobody_Important almost 6 years ago
I love maps! I still have them! Than again, I did just turn 50 so there is that.
MichaelHutson1 almost 6 years ago
Who’ll be laughing after EMP knocks out GPS service and you’re desperately hunting for a back road out of town before the nukes hit?
STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member almost 6 years ago
My first brush with electronic directions was on a mapping site on the computer. It said turn south and go a half-mile, then turn right and go two miles, then make two left hand turns (a u-turn) and go back three miles to the four lane, then turn south and go one mile.I mentioned it to my coworkers, and one of them pointed out that it should have had me turn left on the four lane, go to Atlanta and go all the way around the beltway there, and come back one more mile than the drive north. It would have put me in the same location also.
Andrew Sleeth almost 6 years ago
It merits noting, there’s a lucrative market for antique maps. In fact, map collecting has seen something of a resurgence in the last decade. Personally, the map I’d love to put my hands on was actually a prop in the 1998 movie, “The Mask of Zorro,” a wall-sized map of the historical territory of Mexico, printed on fabric.
MaximoMayeri almost 6 years ago
poor goat
Liza Saint almost 6 years ago
I am 26 and I own a physical map of my home state.
Sisyphos almost 6 years ago
I have a bunch of (increasingly out-of-date) road maps, but they live in a desk drawer and no longer in my car. The only maps in my car are the ones that came included with the Owner’s Manual and related stuff in a folder, and I don’t use them. I check out any unfamiliar routes on computer before leaving home….
But it doesn’t matter, anyway. I’m an Old Fart and Goat looks like a kid to me (pun intended)….
BruceBergman almost 6 years ago
They stop laughing when the GPS blanks out and reboots in city traffic. Maps are always readable.
Alien-X almost 6 years ago
When I started driving my first car in 1968 I always kept a state map and a city map in my glove compartment. I never got lost!
therealdogman7770 almost 6 years ago
that is my dad in a nutshell (He’s 50)
LrdSlvrhnd almost 6 years ago
I’d’ve been laughing more because he kept the map in the trunk…
LOAFY over 3 years ago
To everyone in the comment section complaining because young people don’t know how maps work and rely entirely on GPS: first of all, this is simply false. Most of us know how to use a map and compass. Secondly, when accurate maps and compasses were new technology, people probably complained that new generations rely too much on them and wouldn’t know how to navigate “properly”, with sticks, stones, the sun, moon stars, and wind-most of which is fairly easy to learn, and even now this knowledge is not lost. So, please stop complaining.