This is because of how apps display and center you, relative to your surroundings. If you navigate by a paper map, you trace your position along a route. If you

This is because of how apps display and center you, relative to your surroundings. If you navigate by a paper map, you trace your position along a route. If you make the same trip with a navigation app, it will constantly orient what it shows around your position in the center, so your brain finds it harder to map physical landmarks encountered on the trip to where they fit along the path, as you can't see the whole path. Humans are very good at navigating by landmark, but apps/gps distract from learning and placing them relative to the entire trip.