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Strong agree; came here to recommend this — this is something I came up with by myself and thought I was the only one who did this; glad to find others think th
by svat 3y ago
Strong agree; came here to recommend this — this is something I came up with by myself and thought I was the only one who did this; glad to find others think the same. Doing this has greatly improved my sense of direction (to much better than it was before I started using GPS/navigation). It's like getting instant feedback for your direction sense (e.g. I was driving west and just now I turned left, so I'm now driving south), and remaining oriented about where different places are wrt each other.
A couple of screenshots for anyone confused:
Before: https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/264/902/953/418/114/original/f0c9c6c153701ad7.png https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/264...
After: https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/264/905/223/072/469/original/f92d052bb173f0bd.png https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/112/264...
- naasking 3y agoThis is probably only good for people who already have good spatial reasoning and can make the transformation on the fly from screen orientation to what you're seeing ahead of you. Many people have poor spatial reasoning skills though, and probably find the direct view more useful.
- svat 3y agoI don't think of myself as having good spatial reasoning, but it still works for me — note that if you look at the top part of the UI (in the grey box covering the map), the arrows are still relative to "you". So at least in the first few days of trying out this orientation, one could just rely on the arrows for turns, and use the rest of the map only to reinforce/build their spatial transformation (rotation) skills.