Mostly true. Dead wrong on maps. GPSes are not nearly advanced enough to make maps obsolete, and I'm not sure they ever will be. Maps allow you to gain an overa

Mostly true. Dead wrong on maps. GPSes are not nearly advanced enough to make maps obsolete, and I'm not sure they ever will be. Maps allow you to gain an overall understanding of an area. Directions will get you where you're going, but you'll never be able to navigate intuitively unless you know the whole area. I still greatly prefer maps to GPSes and often to directions. Sure, GPSes can provide maps, but GPS are much smaller than any reasonable map, which defeats the whole purpose of getting a wide view of an area. Also, until GPSes are nearly perfect, there's still the issue of them being wrong or of a road being closed. Maps are very rarely wrong. If you're heading South, you're probably getting further South on the map, but I've had a GPS tell me to head South when the destination was miles to the North, eventually leading to a dead end no where near the destination.