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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by a_gnostic on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:27PM (#39471801)
Carriers have mapping independent of networks. Drivers keep personal GPS too. You would lose traffic and road conditions, I guess, but nothing proper trip planning wouldn't cover.
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Re:Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon u... by Scoundreller on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:31PM (#39471864)
> Drivers keep personal GPS too.

Do they? I know there are a lot of old units out there but I figure people would have tossed them.

At least I’ve found Waze has been pretty good at starting off with wifi and loading the map of the whole journey after coverage was lost with some resilience for stops/detours.

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