I miss the days of Microsoft AutoRoute. No internet connection needed - but you were stuck with the map and routes present in the release version that was on the CD.
Printing was optional and encouraged!
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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The short time after smartphones but before free EU roaming was the prime days of offline map apps that you specifically downloaded for each city
Ripped map pages out of the phone book
It was pretty great. Tried to have me drive through a city park lake once to get to a movie theater I hadn't been to before. A+
ViaMichelin!
Then offline GPS, I had Navigon installed on a Windows Mobile PDA with a Sirfstar3 receiver. It gave terrible directions.
Mapquest is still around, they have an app
i know a guy who still does this. mapquest->print ... hes not even that old.. just dumb as a brick.