• optissima@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      Hearing people as old as my boomer parents be confused by the amount of physical maps in my car currently is always jarring.

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        10 months ago

        I’ve got a big ol atlas because I read somewhere that over-relying on google maps messes up your ability to function without it. It was super inconvenient at first but now I know offhand the direction and distance to just about every city in my county - and this after an entire lifetime of thinking that I had a terrible sense of direction, the truth was I had just never developed it.

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          10 months ago

          I’ve got a big ol atlas because I read somewhere that over-relying on google maps messes up your ability to function without it.

          I think there’s no way that’s actually true. Google maps helps me arrive somewhere for the first time, but after a small number of times I can drive most places without looking at it. I’ll still use it, because “go another route because there is a huge traffic jam following an unannounced pothole filling or car accident” isn’t a possible skill to learn. Also Google maps is fucking glitchy, you still need to read signs and know where you are anyways, otherwise you’re missing turns 25% of the time.