But shouldn't we just accept that GPS is a good substitute for old-fashioned maps?
Very soon now electronic maps will perfect themselves and, except for stubborn loners like me, the kind who still prefer using manual typewriters, old-fashioned maps will become a thing of the past.
What she has constructed, specifically, is a traditional country-house mystery, more brutal than cozy, but presenting the same kind of intellectual puzzle as her fictional models and adorned, as such books once were, with wonderfully old-fashioned maps, diagrams, engravings, courtroom sketches and other illustrations.
But if the app works on a virtual grid, down on the real streets of Dar es Salaam, other projects also seek to put people, and their businesses, on more old-fashioned maps in a bid to bolster communities' knowledge and ability to deal with floods and other potential crises.
Make your itinerary before you go, and bring good old-fashioned maps and guidebooks with you to avoid spending a good chunk of your vacation staring at the moving blue dot on your Google Maps app.
Also, many governments still have old-fashioned maps with out-dated information.
There's always an old-fashioned map for that.
I enjoy plotting a route on an old-fashioned map.
But new sites add a geographical dimension to online interaction, grounding the ethereal in coordinates on a good old-fashioned map.
While The Goonies may have flashy '80s trappings, famous child stars and a Cyndi Lauper song, at its heart is an old fashioned story of treasure maps, grouchy baddies and pirate ships – is an audience raised on Michael Bay interested in this sort of goofy fun anymore?
Whereas GMO seeds generally contain altered DNA or genetic code from other species, this new program is more like an accelerated, science-aided version of old fashioned breeding: scientists use gene mapping techniques to identify desired traits in plants, making it easier for breeders to select for these characteristics.
