As a teen, one of the ways I killed time with my very first PC (a 14-pound XT-class laptop) was to fire up Word Perfect and put together strip maps for upcoming roadtrips.
(Yes, I have always been a little odd. Why do you ask?)
It seems that I may have had a rather remarkable predecessor in such an endeavor. From Ananova:
The Plus Fours Routefinder was designed to be worn on the wrist - relying on good old-fashioned paper maps wound around wooden rollers, which the driver turned en route.[…]
The device was intended to allow drivers to navigate around the UK, but with so few cars on the roads it never really took off.
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