Just out of curiosity, are you full digital do you still buy map often ?.
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I didn’t buy it, but I was at Cooter’s Garage near Luray VA this spring and on the wall was a big cool detailed map with a bunch of motorcycle routes and bars, restaurants, and attractions to see all over WV, VA, and OH. I asked if they had it for sale and the lady said, no, but there was a little smaller version available with the brochures. So I got a folded-up one that’s still neat.
I don’t typically ever have to Buy maps. But whenever I’m touring a new place paper maps are awesome. Especially for cities. I learned basically all of Paris and Barcelona that way. Granted I also had to walk everywhere.
I bought a road map a few years ago for the car in case of emergencies.
Not me per se but rather my father. For our third (and up to this day latest) roadtrip to Las Vegas in 2014. My parents were still not very smartphone-savy and I wouldn’t have my first until a year later. That time we really did a lot of roaming around the city beyond just the Boulevard and surroundings.
somewhere around 2012. I wanted to have something on my wall as a teen.
My mom used to work for the local school district, and another teacher was going to get rid of one of the old pull-down maps so she took it for me.
I still have to find a place to put it up though lol.
Aviation maps for drone licenses theory exam. This was before they updated the legislation and you had to actually study aviation.
Other than that I’ve bought OS maps for hiking purposes. Also tried to buy some custom areas to create a custom map poster but it was basically impossible so I ended up building it myself from screenshots.
I buy some roadmaps probably every 10 years or so to make sure mine are up to date and not too beat up, I keep them in my car and do use them occasionally. I usually have 3 maps, a local maps of my nearest city and surrounding area, one of my state, and then one of the surrounding region.
I also tend to pick up free maps wherever I can, lots of state parks and such, tourist maps, etc. but I’m not buying them so not exactly relevant.
I also tend to pick up free maps from AAA since I’m a member whenever I’m going on a road trip, I’m paying for the membership so I guess in a sense I’m buying them, but also not really
False dichotomy: I’ll still happily grab a paper map to this day if given the option, but I’ve never paid for one.
Every paper map I’ve ever used has been either a state highway map given for free at the state welcome center on the side of the freeway, or a state/national park hiking trail map given for free at the visitor center or ranger station.
That’s a good point. I’ll use paper maps for, say, park trails all the time.
Maps were always free. My family even had AAA so we could get those fancy Trip-Tiks.
I’ve kept a 6-county atlas (Chicagoland) in my car since the 90s. Highly recommended. We had a hell of a time explaining to my I’ve cousin’s oldest kid why learning how to use a paper map was a critical skill. Sometimes the Internet don’t work kids; keep a map in the car.
I bought a topo map a few weeks ago for a backpacking trip. Electronics are heavier and less suitable for that purpose in my opinion.
Around 2008/09 when i’m in college and moving around in a foreign place. Videogame helps me a lot with physical map navigation.
never bought a paper map. Have picked up one at a park or something, but haven’t done that in a decade.
Do maps of shopping centres or festivals count? These are often only on paper with no digital analogue.
I use CalTopo, and can make PDFs of the exact area I want and then print custom maps as backups for hiking.
Dnd sessions, always fun to have props
Forgot that simple trick to get maps :). But actually when I use rpg maps, it’s digital and printed and in general not bought (either found online or done)
