This article conflates digital map and GPS shamelessly, making the argument very confusing. First, even if I rely on GPS for turn by turn navigation, I still u

This article conflates digital map and GPS shamelessly, making the argument very confusing. First, even if I rely on GPS for turn by turn navigation, I still use the map to see the route and specially to locate myself when in a new area. Sometimes I look for a place to eat nearby and them I make the route just by looking at the map: walking is often a matter of choosing nicer streets, which the Google Maps route does not do well. On the other hand, driving around always make me distant from the place I'm at. With or without turn by turn navigation. Without it, I just look at the map and make a route beforehand, never seeing anything around me in between - too worried on navigating for that,even if I am not the driver. People traveling long distances by error was not unheard of before GPS. It was just less of a news item. Quite on the contrary, I bet they are less frequent today. Also, a good share of the population always had problems reading maps. I guess they are the ones that depend the most on GPS.