In this Monday, April 9, 2012 photo a scant rack of road maps is seen at a gas station/mini mart in Solon, Ohio on. Colorful maps bearing the logos of the oil companies that printed them _ names like ...

These days, when it's time to hit the road, drivers are more likely to let a computer or GPS unit plot their journey than to pull out a paper road map. "I go online," said Erica Falk, 32, an ...

SOMEWHERE WEST OF LARAMIE, things began to go wrong. The Garmin StreetPilot III Deluxe that had been navigating us from our base on the Chesapeake Bay began to suffer from GIGO: garbage in, garbage ...

One of the advantages of map apps over traditional paper maps is the fact that with an app, the user can zoom in on one area of a map – no having to spread a whole paper map out just to look at one ...

While there are no official stats on how many people use it, Google Maps is the world's number one mobile navigation app. It comes pre-loaded on Android devices, and Apple users often install it to ...

Ted Florence is ready for his family trip to Botswana. He has looked up his hotel on Google Maps and downloaded a digital map of the country to his phone. He has also packed a large paper map. “I ...

Hundreds of years ago, map makers mistakenly represented California as an island off the west coast of North America. Today's digital cartographers wouldn't dream of making such a huge mistake, but ...

Should north be at the top of your paper map or GPS satnav device for the best guidance? Satnav and mapping expert Peter (World Mapman) Davis looks into the phenomenon in the third part of our satnav ...

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