Unfortunately, good maps are now scarce or unavailable. The situational awareness of understanding where you are is a big loss compared to following GPS direct

Unfortunately, good maps are now scarce or unavailable. The situational awareness of understanding where you are is a big loss compared to following GPS directions. Looking at a map, you may decide to take a detour or follow a more scenic route. Google maps on android makes this very hard to do since they've disabled the route dragging feature. I also find that the computer generated routes, while much better than they used to be, are often optimized for the wrong things. I can often pick a better route myself. I have a family member who would be lost without GPS, but they end up doing a lot of unnecessary driving when going out for more than one errand as they have no idea what the best overall route would be or where these things are in relation to one another.