I miss the giant almanacs the car insurance company would give you each year that had all of the US states in them. We would plot routes for cross country trips. I can use a paper or digital map,
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evranch@lemmy.ca 7 months agoJust learn how to navigate properly with a map. You know where you are (hopefully) and you look up where you’re going. Do your own routing, it’s not hard and once you’ve been doing it for awhile you’ll have instinctive routes you use to link different areas. No location permissions required.
If you use navigation all the time you can become like my ex-wife. Lost without it, in her own city. Exercise your brain by finding your way around with landmarks and signage, I have never used navigation apps because I know my way across three provinces, and can navigate the major cities just based on my instinctive mental maps of them.
jadedwench@lemmy.world 7 months ago
davysnavy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“exercise your brain” lol. Another way to look at it is using precious brain power that could be used on other things. Also, it’s cringe to take pride in being able to navigate without a map. It’s useless knowledge in most cases. We all have phones.
evranch@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Other things like what, driving the car? Chatting with your passengers? Orienting your cheeseburger properly? Hopefully you can handle all of these at once and still not miss your turn.
Are you so inept in your life that you need your phone to tell you where you’re going?
Where I live the roads have no names and the cell coverage is marginal. Some roads are flooded, some covered with snowdrifts… Some haven’t been passable for years. I don’t know a single person who uses the navigation features of their smartphone.
le_saucisson_masquay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Until you don’t. Battery dies. Phone get stolen. During an emergency if you struggle to navigate that’s embarrassing.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not about to downvote you, but, I seriously don’t miss paper maps.
Every time there’s a new neighborhood somewhere you have no freaking clue where a road is because you need to go out and buy the latest paper map.
I’ll just use open street map thanks.
evranch@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I’m not talking about paper maps, I use Google maps myself. I do like the feel of a paper map but they aren’t practical anymore for the reasons you mentioned.
I even search for my destination and look at where I’m going.
However I don’t use the navigation feature. Never seen the need. If I can’t find my way around the city without an AI holding my hand, I’ve got dementia.