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 ...

A dangerous norm is emerging. The widespread adoption of navigation systems is dumbifying the American navigator, making them incapable of reading a map, much less understanding it. To rectify that, ...

Turns out, what's old is new again. So why are maps booming now when most of us have a GPS in our hands at all times? Tony Rodono owner of Charlotte, North Carolina.’s MapShop, told TODAY that it has ...

We will be driving around southern France for about 3 weeks later this year. Languedoc-Roussillon and The Luberon. Trying to decide whether we would be better off with paper maps or relying on GPS to ...

With a smartphone, Google Maps, and two fingers, you can summon pretty much any map you want, from a wide view of the seven continents to the handful of blocks immediately surrounding your house. The ...

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 ...

Map 2 is a folding paper map of Greater London, with a twist (or rather, with a fold): You can zoom in. Electronic maps, like those from Google, are better than paper in many ways. You can search, ...

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 ...

It was an exceptionally dark night in Ruidoso, New Mexico, and I was riding in a car crawling down a narrow, lightless alleyway on my way with family to get dinner. “Turn right at the next street,” ...

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 ...