Paper Maps to GPS

The advancement of technology has exceeded expectations and to a great extent, it is simpler and faster.   You can book your flight, find a hotel and plan an entire vacation with a few clicks. This was impossible twenty years ago.  Today there is a readymade app for everything; whether it is a local attractions guide or a detailed map of the area. Research has shown that among the most widely used is the navigation technology on the smart phone (Global Positioning System, GPS). 

              

  A few years ago, when a family took a driving vacation, they would go to the AAA Motor Club office, get maps and order a customized book of the driving route called “Trip-Tik”.   Gone are the days when people used to carry paper maps, constantly folding and unfolding it to eventually end up at the wrong place a few times. Today, with the navigation technology embedded in the smart phone apps, any place in the world has become easier to access. With the advent of Google maps, every step of a traveler has been precisely monitored so that no one can go wrong with his/her directions. You can figure out the exact distance between two points and also be aware of how much fuel you may need for the ride.

Thus, we can still do those road trips, one may still need the paper maps but trips are so much easier with a GPS. So, you don’t have enough money to go on that Caribbean cruise, get in the car and start driving!

http://www.tourism-review.com/top-five-trends-of-travel-technology-news3924

https://gigaom.com/2013/05/15/eight-years-later-google-reinvents-its-maps-for-a-data-rich-web/

http://www.inman.com/2012/01/16/top-10-android-navigation-apps/