DOES AAA give away free maps if your not a member? (toll, left turn)

[ntwrkguy1]

"Map"

Thanks for the lulz.

[finalmove]

Every book store sells maps of all types and sizes. My dad still has some maps on the back of his Grand Marquis seat!

[Electrician4you]

Go buy a atlas. There is another new word for the class. It's a map in book form. Personally I think maps are great. If your electronic gizmo craps out you should have a map as a back up at least.

[jambo101]

In the stationary department at Walmart they will have a section on road maps.

[ged_782]

Originally Posted by finalmove

Every book store sells maps of all types and sizes.

Only problem is there are hardly any physical bookstores left.

[ralphfr]

Most of your high class gas stations still sell them.

[Ed_RDNC]

Back in the pre-GPS days, I used to get new AAA maps each year.
They used to require your membership number, and limited the number of maps you could get for free to I think three. It was worth the effort as the AAA maps were the best available.
Maybe decades before, they were free. In the 60s-70s you could mail away to AAA with a start and end, and they would send you back a free Trip Book, maps with your route highlighted, and points of interest info, all customized and bound. Excellent for family vacations.

I also stocked up on OK maps for free at any Interstate Welcome Center when crossing state lines.

[LeagleEagleDFW]

Whoa, now I'm remembering being a kid and riding around in my dad's car and opening the glovebox, and all these AAA maps would fall out that he had stuffed in there.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

AAA always wants to see my membership card, so I suspect that maps are for members only.

Maps allow you to see the bigger picture instead of following a very narrow path without any awareness of what else might be in the area. There are almost always multiple roads to get you where you want to go and a map will let you see those.

GPS shows a very small area and my experience with GPS is that it often does not send you on the best route. It will occasionally send people into areas that are dangerous and people have even died by blindly following their GPS.

GPS is also worthless if you haven't decided where you want to go. You can look at a map and see that if you follow that road there is a lake up there. Can you ask your GPS to find you a nice lake for a picnic?

[MillennialUrbanist]

Originally Posted by V8 Vega

I like maps, you can see where you are and where you want to go and see the best route. Also can estimate the time it will take. Also have a sense of where your going instead of blindly following spoken direction without a clue of where you are.

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

Maps allow you to see the bigger picture instead of following a very narrow path without any awareness of what else might be in the area. There are almost always multiple roads to get you where you want to go and a map will let you see those.

GPS shows a very small area and my experience with GPS is that it often does not send you on the best route. It will occasionally send people into areas that are dangerous and people have even died by blindly following their GPS.

GPS is also worthless if you haven't decided where you want to go. You can look at a map and see that if you follow that road there is a lake up there. Can you ask your GPS to find you a nice lake for a picnic?

Too funny with these comments. I once started a thread on my dissatisfaction with a GPS. I mentioned how it sent me into a 5-mile construction zone with a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam, how it told me to make three turns when one turn would do, how it told me to get off an expressway and get back on at the same street, and how it sent me many miles out of my way. I got ripped to shreds in that thread, for being a luddite . Good to know there are other people who think GPS's are usually a bad idea.