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>Navigating with a map and compass is a difficult skill that takes a lot of practise, no one seems to realize now-a-days that using devices has that same skill
by serf 4y ago
>Navigating with a map and compass is a difficult skill that takes a lot of practise,
no one seems to realize now-a-days that using devices has that same skill window.
my father would be useless with a phone and gps app, but with the right charts and a sextant he can find his way around the sea.
in other words : navigating is difficult, and the tools you choose to use, be it GPS and electronics or the sun/compass/sextant require practice regardless.
- daleharvey 4y agoNoone realises that because it is clearly not true. There is a huge difference in how hard it is to look at map and figure out where you are with a compass than it is to look and a map and figure out where you are because there is a big dot exactly where you are.