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>navigation I just look up where I want to go on a map and just drive there. This is one of the two reasons I believe I cannot get rid of a phone. After gettin
by Loughla 3y ago
>navigation I just look up where I want to go on a map and just drive there.
This is one of the two reasons I believe I cannot get rid of a phone. After getting lost in a not great neighborhood in the 1990's and getting jumped, I have pretty severe anxiety about travel to places that I am unfamiliar with. GPS has been a godsend.
And pictures of my kids. There is no more convenient way to take constant pictures and videos of my kids than with my phone. I don't remember entire years of my life, and therefore their lives. But I have pictures and videos to remind me!
- syntheticnature 3y agoFrom my observations, people's innate ability to relate a map to the world varies. There are some studies attempting to tie this to gender, but my experience is that is not a hard line at all. I'm sure training is a component, of course, but some folks do not tie the abstraction to the real world well at all. I seem to be good at it, but no one in my wife's family is, so during family get-togethers on that side I'm usually driving or navigating. The fact I can retrace a path I took two years prior from memory is an astonishing feat to them.
- edgarvaldes 3y agoWhen I'm inside the house (any house, but including my own), I often point to a direction when talking about a nearby place. People laugh and correct me because the place I'm talking about is to the north, not to the south as I point out with my finger. I can't go back to a place I was last week without asking for directions. I walk and turn the wrong corner in familiar environments, etc. I love GPS now.
- zikduruqe 3y ago> I love GPS now. The dependence of GPS has made people lose their spatial awareness. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62877-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62877-0