I guess I'm showing my age......

When I use maps at all, they are usually paper maps for planning. MOST of the time my planning amounts to deciding which direction we'll be traveling in and the rest of it is done dead reckoning style with a paper map used only to see what's on the route as we travel along. Never have seen any benefit to using GPS on the open road but it's a BIG benefit when navigating to a specific point in a metropolitan area. Watching the road simply go on and on doesn't seem to be very valuable to me :)

I use Google to find attractions along the route from point "A" to point "B".

Search on: "what to see and do in (name of city/town)".

e.g. "what to see and do in racine wi"

I'm firmly in your camp. I use internet maps to do my initial route scouting and trip planning, but once I'm on the road I prefer to have an atlas. I refuse to get a GPS, much to DW's chagrin.

I love maps and atlases! I get my Benchmarks out and read them just for pleasure.:) The only use I have found for my GPS is for traveling through cities to help me know which lane to get into well before my exit. Traveling through cities is something I avoid when possible. But I do use MS Streets & Trips for planning and find it very useful.

No school like old school.

I'm in the same category - I use maps and "follow my nose" to get me there or get me lost; I use Garmin to get me un-lost.

My trip planning is having a destination and a rough path to get there. If I find interesting things along the way I will go off-route to investigate, experience and explore. Don't need an application telling me I need to be at point X by time Y because I have reservations Z.

I carry the truckers Atlas but I find myself using gps software more and more on my laptop.

Life can be lonely, but not when you have a fold-up map...your'e not alone. My choice is the atlas with many pages to peruse.