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I still have a copy of MS Streets & Trips for which support ended in 2013. Fortunately, streets and geography don't change very rapidly. I've installed my licensed copy of S&T on several computers purchased since 2013, but I wonder when they will stop providing a verification service for my license.

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It's time for me to prepare for internet outages with hard copies, not only of maps but all important reference material.

I bought some books of maps of the entire continent I’m on and put them in our cars. Seems like a reasonable emergency thing to do. I’m under no illusion that if some catastrophe happens that takes down the internet and or GPS that we will necessarily survive but would hate to die knowing I could have spent an extra $20-40 bucks and lived.

I do the same also. Local maps books in my area have a lot more roads and very specific off road/service road Information that online maps don't have which is also handy in emergencys. Being evacuated due to forest fires a few times these maps were very helpful to me.

If GPS ever goes down, getting lost will be the least of your worries.

Organic maps will install under linux and is fantastic. I like using a larger screen for planning stuff ahead.

> streets ... don't change very rapidly

In many parts of the world, it does.

My entire neighbourhood was mostly an empty field at that point.

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