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I never paid attention to the scale when using a map.
by Rerarom 7y ago
I never paid attention to the scale when using a map.
- DoingIsLearning 7y agoI am not sure why you are downvoted as I have the feeling this will be true for a lot of people nowadays. The scale of a map becomes relevant if you have to travel more than a few kilometres without an external 'absolute' reference like a GPS. You could argue that navigation as an individual skill is also obsolete. Equally you could argue that ham radio is obsolete, however there are plenty of exanples of infrastruture faults in disaster situations where ham radio comms was the only alternative for emergency services after earthquakes hurricanes etc. This is same reasoning why pilots training includes instrument loss scenarios. No system is garanteed to never fail.
- ghaff 7y agoSo, if you're looking at a map of a city, you don't care whether you have to walk 1/4 mile or 2 miles between two places?
- Rerarom 7y agoThis actually happened to me once - I walked for way longer than I expected (I had looked at a map just to get directions not caring much about distances), but anyway it was an errand I absolutely had to do that day, knowing in advance how long it was going to take wouldn't have helped me (except maybe psychologically). Now, I'm not defending my actions, I just gave the example to see I was not exaggerating.
- ghaff 7y agoMaybe it's because I do a lot of hiking, but I'm always acutely aware of scale when I'm looking at a map--and it annoys me if it's not immediately obvious.