Road maps produced by the California State Automobile Association, faraway appreciated by travelers and cartographers for their utility and beauty, are going the way of car-hops, drive-ins and high-test gas.
The auto club has been producing maps since 1909 and has what many cartographers consider one of the best operations in the trade. But fewer public are pulling dog-eared maps from the glove compartment these days - demand for the club’s paper maps fell 13 percent final year - so the California AAA will shut its cartography unit by year’s end.
Auto club spokesman Jenny Mack says members will still get free maps - one of the club’s most
As the San Francisco Chronicle notes, the auto club’s decision was perhaps inevitable in an era when driving directions are a mouse go absent and GPS systems are ubiquitous.
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Original post by Chuck Squatriglia
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