Mapsco was a brilliant idea! I did a lot of driving to both old and new neighbourhoods back then. I was always buying the newest editions so I could get the updated streets for new subdivisions (I think they have had supplementals between major editions too)…kinda like a Google maps update…but with paper. I think I left a stack of those books in my truck when I traded it in as I had just been gifted a Garmin GPS
Before printed directions, I had a Mapsco book https://www.ebay.com/itm/266324662580 of Dallas and surrounding.
About half the size of a phone book, had to frantically study the map at stop lights, but damn near impossible to get lost if you had one.
Wouldn’t call it nostalgia, like missing 56k modems, a “hostage to low tech”.
Mapsco was a brilliant idea! I did a lot of driving to both old and new neighbourhoods back then. I was always buying the newest editions so I could get the updated streets for new subdivisions (I think they have had supplementals between major editions too)…kinda like a Google maps update…but with paper. I think I left a stack of those books in my truck when I traded it in as I had just been gifted a Garmin GPS