I bet we could help people regain some of this ability via video games. A lot of time people are fast traveling or following from point A to B on a minimap with

I bet we could help people regain some of this ability via video games. A lot of time people are fast traveling or following from point A to B on a minimap without needs to understand how landmarks and directions relate to your position. Anecdotally, I've found people like myself who prefer GPS when traveling to always keep the map pointed north have a better understanding of how and where to get from place to place because landmarks are also tied to a sense of cardinal direction. Many games offer this as an option as well. Despite growing up in a 900-person town, memorizing the Los Santos and San Fiero in GTA: San Andreas made city navigation later in life something I had already trained my brain on.