Given time enough before I have to go somewhere I am unfamiliar with or on a long trip I go to Google Maps and put in the addresses, if I have them, and then study the options provided or create my own variations. when I actually make the trip I may find GPS taking me different directions and at times I say nope to a GPS direction knowing from my earlier study of the map that I want to go another way. Often times, after the GPS stops trying to get you to go back to its way, it comes around to where I wanted to go. Sometimes I just follow the GPS. But I like to visualize the route before going as often as I can. I'm a visual person.
I really like this one. Good food for thought... and, having had a father who was a cartographer (albeit, one who worked on computer maps and international mapping standards and therefore, helped to bring GPS to life!), I always had a great love of maps, and started off with a very healthy mistrust of the GPS! But that was mostly because the early ones did not make it easy to see the larger map. They lacked context. I am going to be thinking about this one for a while...I must confess to using my phone GPS quite a lot these days. Maybe it's time to break out the old maps again? Or, look at where someplace is on the GPS-provided map - and then, figure out how to get there on my own. :)
Given time enough before I have to go somewhere I am unfamiliar with or on a long trip I go to Google Maps and put in the addresses, if I have them, and then study the options provided or create my own variations. when I actually make the trip I may find GPS taking me different directions and at times I say nope to a GPS direction knowing from my earlier study of the map that I want to go another way. Often times, after the GPS stops trying to get you to go back to its way, it comes around to where I wanted to go. Sometimes I just follow the GPS. But I like to visualize the route before going as often as I can. I'm a visual person.
I really like this one. Good food for thought... and, having had a father who was a cartographer (albeit, one who worked on computer maps and international mapping standards and therefore, helped to bring GPS to life!), I always had a great love of maps, and started off with a very healthy mistrust of the GPS! But that was mostly because the early ones did not make it easy to see the larger map. They lacked context. I am going to be thinking about this one for a while...I must confess to using my phone GPS quite a lot these days. Maybe it's time to break out the old maps again? Or, look at where someplace is on the GPS-provided map - and then, figure out how to get there on my own. :)