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re: Young people: Would you be able to get to and from places without GPS?
Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:43 pm to BowlJackson
Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:43 pm to BowlJackson
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Who the hell knows how to get anywhere more than a few miles away from your home before you learn how to drive?
My daughter is 12 and I make her navigate us sometimes when we aren't in a hurry.
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Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:43 pm to OMLandshark
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I’m in sales, and I have no idea how the frick salesmen did this years back. It’d take me at least 3 times longer without Google Maps.
It's like a 6th sense. You develop a keen sense of direction after a while.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:45 pm to BowlJackson
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Who the hell knows how to get anywhere more than a few miles away from your home before you learn how to drive?
Almost every kid used to. We would ride bikes all over the city.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:46 pm to Chief Hinge
Anyone ever use the AAA triptik?
Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:46 pm to Hammertime
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34, and I have the big red maps of LA, MS, TX, and AR. It's actually nice to just look where you're going before getting on the road
well i learned how to drive in the early 60s. So that dates me. I use GPS when I need to and even then I like to have maps to read before I start because then the GPS makes more sense. I just have a good sense of direction and then to think in terms of N S E or W instead of right or left. And I really like to drive especially across new to me open country.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:48 pm to East Coast Band
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Anyone ever use the AAA triptik?
I still do occasionally. My dad had hundreds of those.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:48 pm to cajuncarguy
I love maps, so I'll use GPS in a big city I primarily use maps to plot and plan
Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:49 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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It's like a 6th sense. You develop a keen sense of direction after a while.
I'm pretty good with directions but I'd sometimes land in a city like Pittsburgh at 10pm and have to go find a hotel that I'd never been to. It was hard enough trying to use a map in the dark.
GPS was so much easier. I used it a lot when Garmin and Tom Tom became pretty common. I only wish you could tell it to avoid high crime areas. It's taken me through some rough areas a few times.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:50 pm to RogerTheShrubber
I have a US Atlas in my car all the time and every time I cross a state line I stop and grab a state map at either the welcome station or a gas station. I still use my phone gps primarily but the paper map is a nice security blanket.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:53 pm to Chief Hinge
I know my way around New Orleans pretty good because of knowing "around where" places were located. You go around that area and drive around and look for it. You can get pretty familiar with an area by doing that.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:53 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
I’m a crazy if I trace every little river, stream, tributary in the atlas if I get bored? I remember the ones I’ve seen in person but sometimes I get bored and try to plan obscure routes from one way to another
Posted on 12/14/18 at 8:57 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Almost every kid used to. We would ride bikes all over the city.
I would go over all over my area of town on my bike, I knew every street. But for kids on bikes to try and get anywhere real in the city outside of residential areas would have been suicide. Where I grew up wasn't designed to be pedestrian or bike friendly.
Maybe you just grew up in an a smaller "city" than, or in a time with less traffic and less highways.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 9:00 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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have a US Atlas in my car all the time and every time I cross a state line I stop and grab a state map at either the welcome station or a gas station. I still use my phone gps primarily but the paper map is a nice security blanket.
Key Map FTW
Posted on 12/14/18 at 9:09 pm to Canada_Baw
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I’m a crazy if I trace every little river, stream, tributary in the atlas if I get bored? I remember the ones I’ve seen in person but sometimes I get bored and try to plan obscure routes from one way to another
I'm a map guy. I remember following the Thames River in England to it's beginnings.
Nowadays, I'll just randomly go to a street view of places. Just last night I was wandering the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 9:15 pm to East Coast Band
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I'll just randomly go to a street view of places. Just last night I was wandering the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Yep. I'll spend hours on Street View
Posted on 12/14/18 at 9:42 pm to RogerTheShrubber
A lot of people don't understand, "Stay on this road unless I tell you to turn"
Posted on 12/14/18 at 9:44 pm to Chief Hinge
In Dallas, no. In the woods/middle of nowhere, yes. Go figure.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 9:49 pm to Chief Hinge
A year before my daughter started driving, we would go for a family ride somewhere and I would make her give me directions on how to get home.
It was absolute chaos at first but she eventually developed an understanding of her surroundings. We laugh about it now and look back fondly on those drives.
It was absolute chaos at first but she eventually developed an understanding of her surroundings. We laugh about it now and look back fondly on those drives.
Posted on 12/14/18 at 9:54 pm to East Coast Band
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I'm a map guy. I remember following the Thames River in England to it's beginnings.
Nowadays, I'll just randomly go to a street view of places. Just last night I was wandering the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark.
I do this at work often. Waste away half a day 'driving' around some Hamlet in Europe that was the scene of a WW2 battle.
Posted on 12/15/18 at 1:19 am to Chief Hinge
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Young people: Would you be able to get to and from places without GPS
frick no.
And neither could my parents’ generation.
They act all hard, but they just got used to getting lost. Pulling over to unravel a 7ft atlas That was out-of-dateThis post was edited on 12/15/18 at 1:21 am
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