I’m 56 and I remember cross country road trips with my family and my dad would get the latest Rand McNally map of the US and the states were listed alphabetically so we always discussed how the printers had to account for that when they printed the front and back pages of each sheet! Then updating the new roads when you’re mass producing maps like that had to be a bitch! Reading the map was a grid and there was a legend to help you find places. God help you if your destination was somewhere in the crease of the book! 😂
What is crazy is that twenty years before this, you navigated across the country by asking directions, by pointer signs telling you (maybe) when each road went, and by asking directions. There were no interstates, there were barely highways, many of the major routes were just dirt roads, and they wound across the countryside, through every town. We didn't get ir major highways paved until the late 40s. The roads were narrow, winding two lanes just wide enough for two cars to fit. There are a few old sections still existing where they bypassed and shortened the road. So having actual maps showing every road and town was a big deal. And they had to update often because they were building and expanding roads at a rate you won't believe today, when it takes ten years just to do major repairs in an extant stretch of road. This was the start of the automobile boom.
I never thought about there being enough of a demand for map updates for printers to release them on a two-week basis, wow. In fact I haven't heard of detour maps at all, probably because they weren't commonplace where I live. I'm probably part of one of the last generations to have used printed maps for car navigation, yet detour maps are so out that I never came across them before.
Back as recently as 2003 or so, we went to the US and the only thing we used was a road atlas bought at Wal-Mart. That thing was amazingly precise. GPS are nice, but are often riddled with errors. And good luck finding something that isn't listed there. With an actual map, you can deduct what is where sometimes.
@@mverick5444 both eyes open which doesn't seem to be the case with most people nowadays and a road map also something that has passed, people don't often driving to lakes and oceans on roads that aren't there. In the military I applied it courses where we didn't have a map available to us. He's always nice to have a map even a person needs to learn to read it and not just listen to the GPS turn right here. But then I've ever had satellite for used to draw up the maps. You ever think about The faulty human input put in by people who don't care as much about their jobs with the information you get from GPS? Sometime it's nice to have somebody who's anal about their job because they work to get it right. I've traveled 42 or so of the 50 states some more extensively than others. I will use Google maps but there's been many times I went back to my old Walmart map Atlas book to figure out what Google's got it wrong. A little bit off of your comment but I don't know where Google sticks their head at some time. They will drive you through a neighborhood when there's a perfectly good route to bypass it. What to save 20 ft of driving and a half ounce of gasoline? Keep one of those Map books in your car and learn how to read them. If you drive any amount at all, they will be useful.
You are right! I driven tens of thousands of miles around this country using maps predominantly the one from Walmart. Truck stops and other places sell them to. Can I sing about the map is that it's almost always correct and you don't have to worry about losing signals way back in the forest or in the mountains and the GPS stopped working. Also with the map you can find out that dual maps make no sense sometimes and you can drive around the neighborhood you said driving through it. One person that replied to your comment by the name of Maverick obviously hasn't heard that much. One time we actually saw somebody drive right into the water. We stayed around until she was able to be rescued out. First thing I heard her say was I don't understand GPS told me to turn etc etc.. Hope you had fun and enjoyed driving around the country and saw some great sites because it plenty of things to see and a lot of good people to talk with.
My parents had a Rand-McNally GPS device. It was a yellow brick that plugged into a laptop and used special software to show a virtual road map on the screen, with a car shaped marker. I remember spending several hours updating the maps before road-trips. It was a PITA, and now all of that is updated in real-time on my phone.
I did this back in the 40’s. Every week, making a new F’ING map. It never stops my god HELP ME…..I have to make new makes every 6 hours now, MAPS MAPS MAPS……STOP IT……
I love finding old footage of highways and bridges being built, there is agreat documentary about the Alaskan highway construction, but I don't remember the name of it.
Tremendous film. How rugged were those cars. On another note, years ago I saw a wonderful Ford film about customer service - Put yourself in the customers’ shoes and it had a dealership who had a little pair of shoes as a keychain for their staff and customers to reinforce how they always wanted to put themselves in their customers’ shoes. It would be great if you can find that film. I haven’t seen it in 25 years.
@@frostedbvtts I think Chevrolet sponsored this film, as they were Jam Handy's biggest customer. Here's what they produced the following year for the training of salesmen...with a little help from the folks from MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000. ruclips.net/video/aWIQuvbxu0E/видео.html
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I’m 56 and I remember cross country road trips with my family and my dad would get the latest Rand McNally map of the US and the states were listed alphabetically so we always discussed how the printers had to account for that when they printed the front and back pages of each sheet! Then updating the new roads when you’re mass producing maps like that had to be a bitch! Reading the map was a grid and there was a legend to help you find places. God help you if your destination was somewhere in the crease of the book! 😂
All 1940 Chevrolets...did you see the suspension working to the extreme? I sure did.
What a grueling process!
Much respect for these guys
If I were to become a teacher, one of these videos will be on the screen when the time comes...
What is crazy is that twenty years before this, you navigated across the country by asking directions, by pointer signs telling you (maybe) when each road went, and by asking directions. There were no interstates, there were barely highways, many of the major routes were just dirt roads, and they wound across the countryside, through every town. We didn't get ir major highways paved until the late 40s. The roads were narrow, winding two lanes just wide enough for two cars to fit. There are a few old sections still existing where they bypassed and shortened the road. So having actual maps showing every road and town was a big deal. And they had to update often because they were building and expanding roads at a rate you won't believe today, when it takes ten years just to do major repairs in an extant stretch of road. This was the start of the automobile boom.
If i had a teacher like this narrator, I would have cleared JEE and probably pursued PhD in Harvard by now ..
I never thought about there being enough of a demand for map updates for printers to release them on a two-week basis, wow.
In fact I haven't heard of detour maps at all, probably because they weren't commonplace where I live. I'm probably part of one of the last generations to have used printed maps for car navigation, yet detour maps are so out that I never came across them before.
I don't know that there were "detour maps" per se. Certainly not for use by the public. The detours were shown on the road map itself.
Legend is back!
Back as recently as 2003 or so, we went to the US and the only thing we used was a road atlas bought at Wal-Mart. That thing was amazingly precise. GPS are nice, but are often riddled with errors. And good luck finding something that isn't listed there. With an actual map, you can deduct what is where sometimes.
Oh please. GPS is based on satellite info and not information which may be subject to change.
@@mverick5444 both eyes open which doesn't seem to be the case with most people nowadays and a road map also something that has passed, people don't often driving to lakes and oceans on roads that aren't there. In the military I applied it courses where we didn't have a map available to us. He's always nice to have a map even a person needs to learn to read it and not just listen to the GPS turn right here. But then I've ever had satellite for used to draw up the maps. You ever think about The faulty human input put in by people who don't care as much about their jobs with the information you get from GPS? Sometime it's nice to have somebody who's anal about their job because they work to get it right. I've traveled 42 or so of the 50 states some more extensively than others. I will use Google maps but there's been many times I went back to my old Walmart map Atlas book to figure out what Google's got it wrong. A little bit off of your comment but I don't know where Google sticks their head at some time. They will drive you through a neighborhood when there's a perfectly good route to bypass it. What to save 20 ft of driving and a half ounce of gasoline? Keep one of those Map books in your car and learn how to read them. If you drive any amount at all, they will be useful.
You are right! I driven tens of thousands of miles around this country using maps predominantly the one from Walmart. Truck stops and other places sell them to. Can I sing about the map is that it's almost always correct and you don't have to worry about losing signals way back in the forest or in the mountains and the GPS stopped working. Also with the map you can find out that dual maps make no sense sometimes and you can drive around the neighborhood you said driving through it. One person that replied to your comment by the name of Maverick obviously hasn't heard that much. One time we actually saw somebody drive right into the water. We stayed around until she was able to be rescued out. First thing I heard her say was I don't understand GPS told me to turn etc etc.. Hope you had fun and enjoyed driving around the country and saw some great sites because it plenty of things to see and a lot of good people to talk with.
My parents had a Rand-McNally GPS device. It was a yellow brick that plugged into a laptop and used special software to show a virtual road map on the screen, with a car shaped marker.
I remember spending several hours updating the maps before road-trips. It was a PITA, and now all of that is updated in real-time on my phone.
2:30. I live around that area on the map. It was strange seeing that in this video.
That sedan did more off-roading in one scene than an SUV does in a lifetime.
Mad respect for the people that did this kind of work.
I did this back in the 40’s. Every week, making a new F’ING map. It never stops my god HELP ME…..I have to make new makes every 6 hours now, MAPS MAPS MAPS……STOP IT……
You could see them sweating when there was no air conditioning in cars
Remember maps? Remember finding the way without a map the second or third time you went? Remember getting lost? Ah, I still enjoy getting lost!
Wow crazy to realize how different people charted maps in the past
И помимо познавательной информации, это ещё и хорошая реклама автомобиля)
And in the eighty two years since, it has evolved by leaps and bounds!
And now we have the greatest maps of the earth, heck the universe at our finger tips
You can pick out a postal address and see what color the mailbox is… it’s insane honestly
Those maps were more accurate than GPS devices.
AHH..WHEN A HANDJOB WAS A NICKEL
The 1940's Google Map.
A late welcome back us auto industry we miss you
The king is back
Do countries today still make great efforts to educate their people like this?
Nope. Sadly, indoctrination has supplanted education.
Wow this is real useful work.
been a while. glad to see you post
I love these old videos :o)
Nice vdo .. thanks
Great video 👍🏻
I love finding old footage of highways and bridges being built, there is agreat documentary about the Alaskan highway construction, but I don't remember the name of it.
Thanks
I would be interested to know how much of these are now done using computer algorithms now, and how much more accurate they have gotten in 80 years.
Excellent
Tremendous film. How rugged were those cars. On another note, years ago I saw a wonderful Ford film about customer service - Put yourself in the customers’ shoes and it had a dealership who had a little pair of shoes as a keychain for their staff and customers to reinforce how they always wanted to put themselves in their customers’ shoes. It would be great if you can find that film. I haven’t seen it in 25 years.
Well that was very informative
Wow super
America was great !
I miss folding paper maps, google maps and gps are wonderful but a folding paper map truly works and makes you use your brains more...
I remember... No GPS...? What?
Good
Yay!
And now all of these are automatically done by Satellites
Road making is so complex
And no fat guys.
Google maps of the old days
Epic
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Another vdo🔥🔥🔥
오랜만이여~
기다렸다구~
1 년이 지났어 당신은 여전히 기다리고 있습니까?
@@coloradostrong 나는 취직을 했다. 그래서 잊고 있었다.
Pennsylvania turn pike 👍
I would do that driver job lol
Now we are using Google maps... feeling how easy it is..
Hang on a second, let me reset Google Maps, ok there we go! And my destination is just ahead om left! 👍
i think im cursed now
What's the car in the picture?
Looks like an assortment of 1940 Chevrolets
@@frostedbvtts I think Chevrolet sponsored this film, as they were Jam Handy's biggest customer. Here's what they produced the following year for the training of salesmen...with a little help from the folks from MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000.
ruclips.net/video/aWIQuvbxu0E/видео.html
GPS is so much easier
Man they sure gave that car a workout from 7 minutes onward.
wake the fuck up, there's a new US Auto Industry video
If I get more than a block from my house and my phone dies I'm in trouble.
Allah its greatest what a making he has created!
why don't they use google maps
i felt that when he said “IN INCHES
So, Robert Patrick and Adam Sandler were partners in gathering data for maps drawing.
Flat earth.
first
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