[Cialug] OT: Map geekery, was Alternative for Microsoft products?

[D. Joe Anderson]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:25:05PM -0600, Chris Hilton wrote:
> http://www.randmcnally.com/
> ^^far better than mapquest.
> 
> And when you are on the road, they sell paper versions.  

And, for finer detail, street guides are a treat.  I'm partial
to the statewide DeLorme gazeteers, which are <$20 per state. 
They are detailed enough to show every little street, and any
topography with countours.  The scale doesn't permit any but the
main streets to be labeled, though.

> People did live before computers, and they had roads between
> the time they all led to Rome and the time the laptop was
> invented.

What was that guy's name?  Nick something?

-- 
Joe