Before you could look up addresses on the internet, how did people find smaller locations like houses and restaurants?

Question

I know atlases and roadmaps were a lot more common, but from my understanding those give more of a broader view of a large area like major roads and stuff. If you needed to find a small subdivision or small road, how would you do that before the internet?

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UK here.

If going to a totally unknown place, I would use the road atlas to get there, then go into a local shop and look on the shelves for a local map. This would detail the town down to individual streets.