I think there's a Neville Shute story where he mentions pilots having rolled up strip maps covering about 10-20 miles either side of a route they were flying (I didn't read this myself, it got mentioned by a teacher when we were looking at either the Jaguar or Tornado navigation system (which uses 35mm film strips) at cadet camp one year.
Closer to the ground, there were also the "Contour Road Book of $Country" books - a gazetteer of cross-country routes shown in side-on elevation. These may have been produced initially for the under-powered cars of the 1920s, but even in the 1980s they were excellent for cyclists - the side view of Carter Bar, in particular, was quite exhilarating.
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Closer to the ground, there were also the "Contour Road Book of $Country" books - a gazetteer of cross-country routes shown in side-on elevation. These may have been produced initially for the under-powered cars of the 1920s, but even in the 1980s they were excellent for cyclists - the side view of Carter Bar, in particular, was quite exhilarating.