I ride two wheels; I don't have a GPS mounted (yet). I can print paper maps and put them in the clear plastic sheet protector on my tank bag, or I can simply RTFMap on the screen and memorize it. And I'm forever mucking about with the directions, persuading the automation to avoid the bits I know are trouble... or just looking to be looking. Used to be if I didn't have anything better to do I'd get down an encyclopedia and go exploring. These days? I fire up Google Maps and just pan and zoom around, looking for random shit.
'course, while I'm not *quite* the cartophile you are, I still am one, from a very early age...
But I suspect we've got at least one more generation of map-readers on our hands. Just because we've got a fair bit of infrastructure to go before *all* of our roads are wired for traffic and the handhelds can pull the data and auto-reroute effectively. And there's always planning.
(And there's also what I term "hillbilly nav"... navigation by prominent geographic features, whether natural or man-made...)
"There's no connection to the 405 here. First will take the Long Beach, and then the 405, is that all right? I know where we're going now; there'll be a bathroom stop in about *ten* minutes...." -- Londo Mollari
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I ride two wheels; I don't have a GPS mounted (yet). I can print paper maps and put them in the clear plastic sheet protector on my tank bag, or I can simply RTFMap on the screen and memorize it. And I'm forever mucking about with the directions, persuading the automation to avoid the bits I know are trouble... or just looking to be looking. Used to be if I didn't have anything better to do I'd get down an encyclopedia and go exploring. These days? I fire up Google Maps and just pan and zoom around, looking for random shit.
'course, while I'm not *quite* the cartophile you are, I still am one, from a very early age...
But I suspect we've got at least one more generation of map-readers on our hands. Just because we've got a fair bit of infrastructure to go before *all* of our roads are wired for traffic and the handhelds can pull the data and auto-reroute effectively. And there's always planning.
(And there's also what I term "hillbilly nav"... navigation by prominent geographic features, whether natural or man-made...)
"There's no connection to the 405 here. First will take the Long Beach, and then the 405, is that all right? I know where we're going now; there'll be a bathroom stop in about *ten* minutes...."
-- Londo Mollari