What I like about paper maps, and am trying to replicate on my phone, is the ability to see at a glance what route I want to take from place A to place B, 100 miles away, avoiding major roads.
Doing this with google maps, is when I end up doing all the zooming in and out. I have to zoom way in to see the small roads, and then back out again to get the proud of you and make sure that the road I found is heading in the right direction.
This ends up being incredibly time consuming. Partly because google wants to insist that there is no road there, even when I know there is. Paper maps don't hide the fine details.
