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

[Chris Hilton]

What guy?
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 18:37 -0600, D. Joe Anderson wrote:
> 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?
>