> GPS directions are the minutia, and if you follow directions at that scale, its VERY easy to become disoriented or lost. I can't bring myself to use turn by

> GPS directions are the minutia, and if you follow directions at that scale, its VERY easy to become disoriented or lost. I can't bring myself to use turn by turn directions unless I can look at the overview map first. The turn by turn is useful to me to find an unfamiliar freeway exit or a turn onto a street with terrible signage. But I need to see the overall map first to prime it in my head. I get really frustrated at online maps that don't show street names (and one-ways) at medium levels of detail. Or they'll put the street label just outside the viewport.