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Internet and GPS has really changed things for bike touring. I bought my first GPS in 2001. It had no internal map or mapping capability, but having it meant that if I was kayaking towards an island on Lake Superior, I did not have to worry about paddling past the island in the fog. I manually put the lat and long coordinates for the campsites into the GPS from a nautical chart before my trip. In the photo below, that day I started out with a clear sky before the fog rolled in. This was on Lake Superior, and had no trouble navigating, was unusually calm for Lake Superior.