Um, well maybe from about the time you joined or not long after? So about 4.5 years.
Hopefully you will still be my friend tomorrow, after you forget I said you were "older"
You are a few years older than me
but there have been only paper maps for the majority of my life to date. Almost everyone in So. Cal. had Thomas Brothers map books for the counties they traveled and for longer trips, folding maps from AAA. You can get detail and the BIG picture with paper maps. GPS navigation systems? All the detail disappears once you start "zooming out". Can't even tell if there IS a road from here to there other than the most major ones the system is choosing for you.
The one in my car thinks it should always take the biggest road. Even when I know the smaller roads are more direct, shorter AND have less traffic and traffic controls. We used DD1's TomTom for the trip to Canada. Frustrating. You can choose 'fastest' or shortest but modifying anything it chooses is a PITA, if possible. To avoid going around a toll road (and avoid toll roads was NOT turned on) I had to switch to "shortest". It took us off the highway, through town (did get gas at ~$5/gallon) then back on the highway
Hopefully you will still be my friend tomorrow, after you forget I said you were "older"
You are a few years older than me
but there have been only paper maps for the majority of my life to date. Almost everyone in So. Cal. had Thomas Brothers map books for the counties they traveled and for longer trips, folding maps from AAA. You can get detail and the BIG picture with paper maps. GPS navigation systems? All the detail disappears once you start "zooming out". Can't even tell if there IS a road from here to there other than the most major ones the system is choosing for you.The one in my car thinks it should always take the biggest road. Even when I know the smaller roads are more direct, shorter AND have less traffic and traffic controls. We used DD1's TomTom for the trip to Canada. Frustrating. You can choose 'fastest' or shortest but modifying anything it chooses is a PITA, if possible. To avoid going around a toll road (and avoid toll roads was NOT turned on) I had to switch to "shortest". It took us off the highway, through town (did get gas at ~$5/gallon) then back on the highway
