gotcha. Its funny, but as someone who uses the internet all the time, I still really like having a paper map in front of me. ....
Yep, and I still prefer paper books (the batteries never die).
My main objection to on-line maps is screen size. On a typical paper map I'm looking at a 24-36" piece of paper. My trip may be 20" long, but I still get plenty of details. A screen map is small format, so I can either see the whole trip in a small scale, or I can enlarge the scale for details but lose sight of the big picture.
These days I'm a pretty heavy user of google maps, because it's so easy. But I'm always working back and forth between the big picture and the details. Not that long ago, I was planning a route, and there was a fairly large area with no roads, meaning I needed to go around it. I kept dialing in closer, and FINALLY got to the point where a dirt connecting road going exactly where I needed appeared. Had I not looked more closely, I wouldn't have known it was there.
BTW- does anybody know how to get Google maps to print the map on a full 8.5x11 sheet of paper. Whenever I try, it uses about 1/3 of the paper, and wastes the rest on other stuff.