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re: People need to learn how to read a map
Posted on 5/9/22 at 4:20 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
Posted on 5/9/22 at 4:20 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
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Why need a fricking map when you can fricking google maps it?
Again, I’m not saying that using the apps are stupid. Problem is, people can’t read the Apple or Google Map unless it has arrows and blurts out when to turn.
How in the frick does someone have access to a map on their phone, and still frick up where they are? I use Apple/Google all the time. But when I’m in the sticks of Texas, I’ll zoom out and look at what town I hit next. Hell, just have some spatial awareness. There’s signs on roads constantly telling you if you are headed on a north or south route, they’re numbered, and mileage signs are aplenty.
I’d like to think most people on here can get in their car and go from one major city to the next on an interstate without trouble, but these younger cats are clueless.
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Posted on 5/9/22 at 4:23 pm to scott8811
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Only thing this woman needed is a phone charger
The fact that her phone died and she had to track down an officer to figure out where she was, what road she was on, and which way to go is pathetic. If her gas station phone charger fails, then what?
Posted on 5/9/22 at 4:23 pm to TexasTiger08
My wife is only a few years younger than me. I couldn't believe it when I found out she had never used a paper map growing up. I always kept a map of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and the US in my truck before you could get everything that you need on a cell phone.
Posted on 5/9/22 at 4:32 pm to Wermanium
My wife and I dropped something off at one of her coworker’s houses yesterday. It was in a new subdivision on the other end of town from us. It made sense to type in the address and follow. We entered the neighborhood, took a few turns and found the place. When we left, she started giving me directions on how to get out. I laughed and just pointed, telling her I’m going “that way” because the Main Street we turned off was over there, and I assumed there was more than one outlet.
Posted on 5/9/22 at 5:02 pm to TexasTiger08
I learned to drive w/ maps pre-smartphone; but you're still screwed in rural areas or small towns without GPS if you don't have a local map. The foldout state road maps don't have local detail, and the names on local street signs do not always match up with state highway or country road numbers.
I've had to go down to the county courthouse and get an old map when I was working in a county where they renumbered all the unincorporated roads to convert to a new 911 system, but all the data I had used the old street names.
I've had to go down to the county courthouse and get an old map when I was working in a county where they renumbered all the unincorporated roads to convert to a new 911 system, but all the data I had used the old street names.
Posted on 5/9/22 at 5:07 pm to Auburn80
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The Sun rises in the East and sets in the West. It stays in the Southern sky. What more do you need?
The sky never gets overcast where you live?
Posted on 5/9/22 at 5:09 pm to LT
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I only use the sun, stars, and migratory bird flight patterns.
African or European swallows?
Posted on 5/9/22 at 5:18 pm to TexasTiger08
Two eras of map-dumb people:
1. Early 1980s. Old friend of mine, good-looking guy who became a male model and C-list actor but not too bright (pretty much Joey on Friends) was driving alone in his Celica Supra to meet up with the rest of our crew in Destin. Dumbass missed the I-10 curve to the east in Slidell, drove all the way to Hattiesburg before realizing he was going the wrong way. Most people would look at a map and figure out the best way to get back on track would be to take US 98 to Mobile and rejoin I-10. Not Kevin. He simply took a U-turn, drove all the way back to Slidell then went back on I-10 heading east.
2.(the more modern version). In 2015, I helped one of my best friends (real nice guy but kind of goofy and not the most tech-savvy fella) move his future wife down from Green Bay to New Orleans. I drove the moving truck; he and she were in her car. We took an easterly route through Paducah, Kentucky instead of taking interstate the whole way: less mileage, more picturesque and about the same travel time. We stayed in contact on our smart phones, and I had given him a printed hard map from Google Earth with the route and turns.
On day 2, he called me from somewhere in Tennessee saying he thought he was lost; he asked me if he was supposed to go through a town called Alamo, TN.
Me: No, you're not. Where are you right now?
Him: I don't know.
Me: You have an iPhone. Check your blue dot location with the GPS on the maps feature.
Him: What's that?
Dumbass had the tool in his hand and no clue how to use it. Nor did his future wife, who was supposed to be 'navigating'. I had to pull over, check my own maps, get him to read me some signs he saw, find out where he was, then recalculate his route. He had missed a turn and was heading east to Nashville instead of south to Memphis. His fiancée had to write down my directions step-by-step to get them back on the interstate system to Memphis.
First thing I did when we got home was to show him how the GPS and maps worked on his IPhone. When he saw that blue dot on his phone at his location it was like watching a caveman see someone make fire for the first time.
1. Early 1980s. Old friend of mine, good-looking guy who became a male model and C-list actor but not too bright (pretty much Joey on Friends) was driving alone in his Celica Supra to meet up with the rest of our crew in Destin. Dumbass missed the I-10 curve to the east in Slidell, drove all the way to Hattiesburg before realizing he was going the wrong way. Most people would look at a map and figure out the best way to get back on track would be to take US 98 to Mobile and rejoin I-10. Not Kevin. He simply took a U-turn, drove all the way back to Slidell then went back on I-10 heading east.
2.(the more modern version). In 2015, I helped one of my best friends (real nice guy but kind of goofy and not the most tech-savvy fella) move his future wife down from Green Bay to New Orleans. I drove the moving truck; he and she were in her car. We took an easterly route through Paducah, Kentucky instead of taking interstate the whole way: less mileage, more picturesque and about the same travel time. We stayed in contact on our smart phones, and I had given him a printed hard map from Google Earth with the route and turns.
On day 2, he called me from somewhere in Tennessee saying he thought he was lost; he asked me if he was supposed to go through a town called Alamo, TN.
Me: No, you're not. Where are you right now?
Him: I don't know.
Me: You have an iPhone. Check your blue dot location with the GPS on the maps feature.
Him: What's that?
Dumbass had the tool in his hand and no clue how to use it. Nor did his future wife, who was supposed to be 'navigating'. I had to pull over, check my own maps, get him to read me some signs he saw, find out where he was, then recalculate his route. He had missed a turn and was heading east to Nashville instead of south to Memphis. His fiancée had to write down my directions step-by-step to get them back on the interstate system to Memphis.
First thing I did when we got home was to show him how the GPS and maps worked on his IPhone. When he saw that blue dot on his phone at his location it was like watching a caveman see someone make fire for the first time.
This post was edited on 5/9/22 at 5:21 pm
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