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Rand McNally provides mapping, software and hardware for consumer electronics, commercial transportation and education markets. Founded in 1856, the company is known for its atlases, road maps, globes, and random number books.
Blue Highways is a travel book by William Least Heat-Moon, who explored rural America on small roads in 1978. The book chronicles his encounters with people, culture and history along the way, and has inspired several follow-up projects and references.
Lee Highway was a national auto trail in the US, named after Confederate leader Robert E. Lee. It connected New York and San Francisco via the South and Southwest, and was established in 1919-1923.
A road map, route map, or street map is a map that primarily displays roads and transport links rather than natural geographical information. Learn about the history of road maps, from ancient Egypt to modern GPS, and the different types of road maps, such as highway maps, street maps, and atlases.
MapQuest is an American free online web mapping service launched in 1996 as the first commercial web mapping service. It offers various services and programs, such as driving directions, satellite imagery, buddy-finder, customized routes, and gas price comparison.
Harry Mathias Gousha, a sales executive for Rand McNally, left that company in 1926 to start his own map company out of Chicago, quickly becoming Rand McNally's chief competitor by offering the Touraide: a spiral-bound book with road maps, points of interest, and accommodations that was custom assembled for individual buyers.
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