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I haven't read a map in decades now and think about this. But it's not like the original skill was hard to acquire, in the absence of GPS I think most people c
by PheonixPharts 3y ago
I haven't read a map in decades now and think about this.
But it's not like the original skill was hard to acquire, in the absence of GPS I think most people could pick up map reading in a few days.
What is gone that I can't imagine coming back soon is the non-map direction giving people used to provide. Wonder how many people on HN are old enough to remember the endless debate between "street direction" people (e.g. just turn left on to Main St, then right on Douglas) vs the "Landmark direction" people (e.g. turn left just before the McDonald's after the Exxon gas station).
- aidenn0 3y agoI always liked "Turn on X Street, it's the first left after Y street"
- jabroni_salad 3y agoI got lost in my own 'neighborhood' (farmland area) because the burned out husk of a barn I used as a landmark for my turn was removed while I was away at school. County road numbers/addresses are not very memorable or easy to read at speed and everyone I knew for my whole life used landmarks until I moved into town. I'm very reliant on a bunch of personally named gmaps pins now.
- omniglottal 3y agoCastles built of sand...
- SoftTalker 3y agoOr worse, some local saying "... then turn right where the old Stevenson barn used to be... "
- ftyers 3y agoI have this all the time in the US... I'm a landmark direction person, and giving directions I see the route in my head. I can't get used to street counting or compass point directions... I think a lot has to do with what the street layouts were like when you were growing up. In England there is pretty much no street counting because all the streets are higgledy-piggledy.
- rascul 3y ago> What is gone that I can't imagine coming back soon is the non-map direction giving people used to provide. It's not gone. I still come across it commonly. I also sometimes give or receive such directions.