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Allegiance to that strip map promotes the reasoning that lies behind the most baffling death-by-GPS scenarios, the willingness to “turn right here” when “here” is clearly a lake.

The soothing voice of the turn-by-turn directions, guiding us through an unfamiliar environment, is the personification of the strip map.

The car plunged off the bridge, dropping nearly 40ft to the ground near the water before it burst into flames But the spectre of the strip map also haunts the scarier incidents, like the disappearance of the Chretiens – scary because we can imagine them happening to us.

A strip map is a basic understanding of two points: an unbroken line from A to B. If one knows an environment intimately, and can add in more details, this can turn into a comprehensive map.

The newspaper also published a detailed strip map of the route from the Federal Building on Okmulgee Avenue to the Sycamore Inn.