GPS Eroding Navigation Skills

google maps works without GPS you just need to remember the directions and follow the signs. Even if someone uses GPS even for the easiest routes doesn't mean that he's not capable of doing it without.

GPS is a great way to get from point A to point B without learning the first thing about the location that the route guidance software is navigating for you. If you're only passing through, fine. But you just don't build the same mental model of an area when you don't have to think about it. When the phone dies or there's no reception, you're utterly helpless. When I'm navigating my local areas, I only use a map application to plan routes and occasionally to correct

I've long thought this must be the case. On a regular basis, I fish at a lake in a town 15 minutes from my home, and do not know how to get there without GPS or a friend in the car.Without GPS, I can navigate to places several hours from where I live currently, that I would go frequently in high school, before I had a smart phone or standalone GPS. I kept a printed set of MapQuest directions to popular destinations under my passenger seat in those days.I recently purchased a bare bone

Before GPS navigation apps (I was a kid), I had to either print the whole route or bring a map of my city. When I didn't use such aids I would get lost, and I still do.

I think I've experienced these effects. Without GPS, it takes me quite a while to decide the best route to a location.

I find that if I use GPS/Nav to get somewhere, I have no real awareness of where I am or how to get back. Having spent the large majority of my life without a smartphone (or a mobile phone of any kind) I don't really like that feeling.If I look up where I'm going in advance, or use written instructions, I can generally backtrack to my origin without too much difficulty.

It's like relying on a GPS to go everywhere you need. You will quickly find out you don't know to go anywhere by yourself.

I've started to avoid using GPS navigation whenever possible for these reasons. Navigation is a valuable skill and using GPS means you don't develop it or forget it. I've noticed a strange phenomenon where people will listen to the GPS even if they know it's not right. It's better to learn to navigate.

> GPS. It’s so reliable that I’m fine being unable to navigate. I’ve never gotten in a situation where I wish I had learned to navigate without Google Maps beforehand.I feel like the possibility of having a dying and phone and needing to get back home from a new place late at night is certainly possible, so I think it is worth having at least a basic knowledge of the major highways in your locality and which direction each one goes.

Anecdotally, I find myself now to be lost more often than prior to. Before GPS/Mapping on smartphones became common place, I would acquaint myself very well with where I was going, whereas now I'm much more care free about it--but on the off chance my destination has no signal, or the phone's battery dies on me, I'm much more screwed.