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  • Single sheet of paper, yes.

    But for small out of the way towns (population 2k-10k) you’d want one specific to the town otherwise you’d be looking at a tiny speck on a state sized map. And the big maps might not have all of the small city side streets or not be up to date.

    For reference, the town I did delivery in currently has a population of ~3,000 people and occupies 2.7 square miles out of the 268,596 square miles of the Texas map. Doesn’t make sense to use a map where you’re only looking at about 0.0001% of it.


  • Even better, being a delivery driver trying to find McRando’s house without GPS, map quest, etc. Just a street address and a city street map from the municipal Chamber of Commerce.

    Especially fun when half of your deliveries were out of the city limits and you had to ask for/write down directions, and no cell phone to call if you took a wrong turn or they gave you bad directions.

    I don’t miss those days.












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    Except, a pressure gage reads the number it’s pointing at. Not 1 hand means the number it’s pointing at and the other means 5 times the most recent digit passed plus 1 for each tick mark.

    I’d wager that most people would never even see a pressure gage with two hands. Dual-indicating double-bourdon tube differential pressure gages are quite rare in the real world. Usually for that kind of application you’d go digital.