One of the main benefits of regular maps—or even Google Maps without GPS—is the ability to simply 'learn' the directions. You read the directions to a specific

One of the main benefits of regular maps—or even Google Maps without GPS—is the ability to simply 'learn' the directions. You read the directions to a specific place, internalize that you have to "take X road for Y kilometres, then turn onto Z side street...", and you remember it. On the way back, or next time you go, you know how to get there. Something I've noticed because of this is that older drives—used to standard maps—know how to get somewhere without using a map; i.e., you tell someone an intersection and they instinctively know the route. For younger people, like myself, this is definitely less so the case. We don't have that same geographical familiarity. It's like a feedback loop: we use turn-by-turn GPS because we don't know the route somewhere and in turn never learn it.