I 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 tr

I 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 Equally you could argue that ham radio is obsolete, however there are plenty of exanples of infrastruture faults in disaster situations where ham radio comms was the only alternative for emergency services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.