I used routing on my phone, but without the instructions, just the map, route and the GPS position marker—plus I had the map always with north on top, no rotati

I used routing on my phone, but without the instructions, just the map, route and the GPS position marker—plus I had the map always with north on top, no rotation and no ‘3d’. This arrangement actually taught me about what is where in this city and how that looks from above. Otherwise I would be practically like a recent city-immigrant who knows the route from home to the subway and from the subway to work, with mysterious void in the middle. Still, idk how people were driving here before gps maps, what with five-road crossings, and six-lane ‘guess your lane’ junctions with exits in non-obvious directions, and the old districts with streets packed tighter than GPS accuracy (of yesteryear), and the one-way streets going whatever which way.