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The classics like maps, those big maps that not everyone knows how to fold, and they look suspiciously at navigators. But these also have their story to tell, a story that almost starts with that of the car itself, although many think that it is an invention of the digital age.
We are in 1909, the North American JW Jones creates the Jones Live Map. This device, connected to the car’s odometer, contained a series of paper discs with radially encoded information about a route between two points. The driver chose the disc with the route to follow that he had in his starting position, with the one corresponding to 180º of the circumference. The movement of the speedometer activated the gears of the Live Map that, in a clockwise direction, was showing the data on the disk.