Post AzfyooYmKbB4xAe2tc by paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange
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(DIR) Post #AzfyoiLnPxEBhAWapM by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
2025-10-28T17:11:59Z
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Okay, this is dumb. Can't read the article, but this stuff wasn't around a few years ago. Can this guy NOT READ A MAP? #AI
(DIR) Post #Azfyojc8iftZc9B9wO by paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange
2025-10-28T17:14:48Z
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@ai6yr ability to read a map was never universal and it's definitely diminished with the ubiquity of GPS.i dated someone in high school who told me of her dad's attempts to get his 3 girls to read a map on car trips. this led to lines like:"is this a blue road or a red road we're on?""is it many inches to the next rest stop?"
(DIR) Post #AzfyoklkQRAvCEgLYW by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-28T18:25:31Z
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@paul_ipv6Oh western style maps are very fucked up. There is a lot of assumptions made they are not obvious. They purport to be a schematic reduction of some features, but you're at once presented with a birds eye view, but need to simultaneously place your self on the virtual ground. Direction and map orientation interact. Relative (left, right) orientation requires some grasp of the maps absolute orientation (north, etc). The amount of information is bewildering. This, you grow accustomed tp through experience but initially... Whew. Viewing vs navigation are different uses and different POV. I love maps, hafe since I was a kid. My father worked at the geological survey and he's bring home mostly oceanic maps which to me were less interesting than rosd maps. But they were beautiful. I've got CA and Los Angeles road maps back to the 1930s. Because in the 1920s there were (almost) no roads to map. Fascinating. And crumbling, and I have no idea how to preserve them. @ai6yr
(DIR) Post #AzfyooYmKbB4xAe2tc by paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange
2025-10-28T17:21:53Z
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@ai6yr i stll have paper maps in my car. a bit dated, since it's harder to get them these days. but i figure that at least the bigger state/interstate highways won't change much.city level maps i've pretty much given up on. the old thomas guides i used regularly in DC and SF seem to be dying/dead.
(DIR) Post #AzfyyNW7jMP7yexnaS by paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange
2025-10-28T18:27:16Z
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@tomjennings @ai6yr i was first taught road/street maps. i remember the first time i tried to use a topological map and it was such a different beast.
(DIR) Post #Azfz3ZzgllNe7bGxNI by stevewfolds@mastodon.world
2025-10-28T17:21:43Z
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@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr The faint grey roads on Rand McNally maps were often challenging drives.
(DIR) Post #Azfz3bVd8UWaoxDyng by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-28T18:28:12Z
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@stevewfoldsFor close to 30 years I sought those out and drove on them in the Mojave. Every secondary highway and most roads in NV below 80. Before gps i tried and failed to find Diana's Punch Bowl. Now every idiot with a Rav4 can find it. I drove past it twice. Now I no longer care, lol. @paul_ipv6 @ai6yr
(DIR) Post #Azfz6YppXEPzOb5CC0 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-28T18:28:47Z
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@stevewfoldsFor close to 30 years I sought those out and drove on them in the Mojave, mostly in my 63 Rambler wagon. Every secondary highway and most roads in NV below 80. Before gps i tried and failed to find Diana's Punch Bowl. Now every idiot with a Rav4 can find it. I drove past it twice. Now I no longer care, lol. @paul_ipv6 @ai6yr
(DIR) Post #AzfzIEBS8qJAp1lAm0 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-28T18:30:52Z
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@paul_ipv6I've recently purchased a couple Thomas guides for la. 2004 is most recent. Just seems like a good thing to have @ai6yr
(DIR) Post #Azg00fD913dNO4jvOq by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-28T18:38:54Z
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@paul_ipv6Yeah I know about them, but never actually used them for more than look+see for road trips. @ai6yr
(DIR) Post #Azg06v8GjYHEVJRVfU by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-28T18:40:01Z
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@petrillicYes! Having moved from Massachusetts in 83 a tiny red square with the word CRATER was exciting! So much crazy shit on the ground in the west. @paul_ipv6 @ai6yr
(DIR) Post #Azg2MbP23VJ3r5tB6e by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
2025-10-28T19:05:09Z
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@tomjennings @paul_ipv6 They have brand new, updated Thomas Guides for LA and Orange County (update in 2025)https://thomasmaps.com/la-org-thomas-gudie-2025-57-th-editioninn-stock-now/
(DIR) Post #Azg2yDPLiTC4RNyMMa by jbaggs@infosec.exchange
2025-10-28T19:12:03Z
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@tomjennings @paul_ipv6 @ai6yr My father worked at the geological surveyThat's awesome. As a kid, I used to go with my father to the USGS office in Palo Alto to pick up maps before his hiking trips. Rows and rows of cubbies with rolled up topographical maps. It had a distinctly "library" feel to it back then.
(DIR) Post #Azh0fP0sL33IBJO2C0 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-29T06:20:59Z
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@ai6yrHa! I don't think it occurred to me to look for new! I think it didn't pop up in search. I think I'll get one. Thanks! @paul_ipv6