Do you have an intuitive sense of direction, or do you rely on GPS?
I pull over to ask for directions.
I know my city well enough, but yeah, for anything outside of it I just use GPS.
I rely on gps and have an intuitive sense of direction.Imagine someone who is really good at math using paper and pencil. They will do well.Imagine someone else who is bad at math using a calculator. They will do ok.Now imagine someone who is good at math using a calculator. They will be amazing.
I used to rely on GPS, but now I know every single road within a 100 mile radius of my house that I don't need it anymore.
I kinda do, I can navigate into the general direction by intuition and like 90% of times there's road signs to where you want to go, the general direction again. It's only when you want a specific address I whip out gps maps.Also google maps has a compass on it you retard, it's right fucking there next to the speedometer and what else on the right hand side>>28915051This is the based choice
>>28915031>he doesn't have a compass mirror
>>28915031you let your clanker speak?
>>28915099Kinda wish I had one of those because you can hook up to the 12v for the cleanest radar detector dash cam setup
>>28915139i ran mine through the headliner
>>28915031I intuit long distance but I will pull over to switch on my gps when I'm nearing my destination if I'm not familiar with the area.
>>28915031I get mad whenever I turn on jewgle maps and it rotates the map around to wherever it thinks my phone is facing
>>28915060I know the roads around me too but I still use google maps to check for congestion. Doesn't work all the time but still.
I've only used GPS in rental cars and one time with my phone getting to a hospital hours away. Never had a screen in a car. Have no problem with direction and building / visualizing a map in my head. Back in my day you had to explore RPGs instead of just follow the arrow to the objective.>>28915211I just looked, there's a compass icon there by default that toggles "orient north" and "orient phone direction."
>>28915219I know but that stupid shit likes to randomly turn off and I have to re-enable it.
>>28915221That's fair. I'm really bad with touchscreen phones to this day and UIs keep changing, in a car you're fumbling around and accidentally toggle some random button.
I made several cross country trips before smart phones or GPS existed and I did it by looking at a map before I left, memorizing the route, and just driving.I feel like some of you would be totally lost without some kind of aide.
>>28915031Does american google maps give you cardinal directions instead of left right ?
>>28915311And you would die if you were left to fend for yourself in the wilderness for a year while your ancestors lived like that just fine.
>>28915337When you're starting out from a parking lot or similar, yes. When you're already on the road it uses the normal left or right directions. It's especially annoying if you're in a parking garage with multiple exits onto different streets and a poor GPS signal to boot. I almost never end up leaving from the correct direction or exit.
Depends if I've been there before.
>>28915031There's a little directofindo NSEW indicator on my dash that I never ever look at.
>>28915031Generally I remember, but if I'm getting turned around on suburb snake roads there's a compass on the dash.
>>28915031I can find north anywhere I am.I did a MRI once and I told the DR I could feel it.He said some ppl are sensitive to magnetic fields.
>>28915031>intuitive sense of directionYes .t spacial IQ wizard.
I have the intuition when I am out in the country but no idea inside of a town of 50k people or more
>>28915031I am on hrt...so I use GPS.
>>28915221>I know but that stupid shit likes to randomly turn off and I have to re-enable it.You need to log in to google account, leave your login permanently active so it doesn't time out and make sure your location app is constantly running in the background. If gMaps loses your location it assumes you're logging out and there's a new user so it defaults the settings.
>real time directionsRetard indicator. If you can't look at a route and immediately memorize they key points, I don't want you to have a quantitative presence in my life.
>>28915768The directions are only half the point, I use it for things "knowing how to get there" can't tell you like real time traffic updates that reroute me if unforeseeable circumstances like an accident happens on my route. Doesn't matter so much for short trips but it can save you a shitload of time being rerouted away from the newly forming traffic on longer trips.
I have to see the mountains to know where I am in town but even then I am very absent minded and miss turns or drive to the wrong place a lot
even if youre in unfamiliar territory you could easily determine west just by looking at the sky
>>28915634Checks out
>>28915836What if you're driving at night?
>>28915842moon
>>28915031Pretty intuitive. My country doesn't allow using phones in those Uber cradle things while you're learning to drive and I had an 80s car, so I'd map out routes prior to going anywhere and memorize them. The only time I use GPS in my car now is if I'm on some ridiculous freeway in the middle of the city with various off ramps, take just one wrong off ramp and you can end up on the whole other side of everything.
>>28915031I have a general sense of "I went southwest to get here, so if I just take roads north and east then I'll get back home." But I do get a little confused after going down several roads with long curves and doing several 40-90 degree turns then going in a parking lot and meadering around in there too. If it's not a place I've been to a few times, I'm not sure which way is west when I head out until I get back to a familiar road or landmark. I guess all this is to say that no, I have no sense of direction, I'm basically a woman.One thing I used to do was set a random location on GPS (within 100 miles of my home or whatever) then, when I get there, drive around randomly for a bit, then try to make my way back home without a gps and without immediately backtracking, just kind of intuitively trying to go in the direction I think is home. It always felt nice after driving for 30 minutes or so of backroads and I suddenly start seeing familiar highways. It was more fun than it sounds.
>>28915842Orion will always guide your way on a cloudless night. One could use it for that purpose. I know where it is at what times of year but I've never used it for that. Road signs exist. Before smartphones I wouldn't have been caught dead without several maps. Gas stations usually had laminated local and regional maps.You just sorta "know." [US] cities are often laid out in similar ways.
>>28915842Then you'll be arrested and locked up for breaking the international night-time curfew.
I love these threads, they always weed out the flyover cucks in a city with a population of 50k who think that a 20 year atlas is all that's needed to navigate to unknown addresses in a city of 2m+ pop where roads are always congested or going through roadworks...
>>28916085And yet, somehow, everyone used to somehow manage for a century with just maps and road signage. Not even cell phones.
>>28916085gosh how could i ever find something if other people are on the road
>>28915768I have no idea who you even are
>>28915765Whoever programmed it to behave that way ought to be put up against the wall and shot
>>28916094Yeah, because while road signs make sense and arterial roads are generally laid out logically, they still didnt have ungodly amounts of congestion to deal with. Road atlas was only needed to find an exact street when in that neighbourhood. It's still the same today except modern day traffic means that following signs and arterial roads will double or triple commute time compared to having a GPS calculate the fastest routes with the dijkstra algorithm.
>>28916094Image = nightmare fuel
>>28916098Youre free to be an NPC and sit in stop and go traffic for an hour by following road signs, rather than use GPS to calculate a faster route.
>>28916105wait till you see a place like singapore. it's even more dense.
>>2891509998 degrees is east, not northwest.
>>28916201depends if youre using fahrenheit or celsius
>>2891620798 f is about 310 k which IS northwest so while you're not technically correct you did help me arrive at the right answer
>>28915031That dude has never used a GPS. He's just engagement farming.
>>28916094Manhattan is one of the easiest places to navigate because it's all built on a numbered grid system.
>>28916103It's intentional, they make it inconvenient for you to log out so they can harvest more data.
>>28915031Kind of. I'm good at remembering turns, distances, and landmarks and can build a map in my head pretty quickly. I'm horrible at actually remembering names of streets and highways though, and not great at knowing what my actual compass heading is, I just know where I am and which way I'm headed in relation to where I started and other known locations. As a side note, I can't do audio GPS directions, I have to actually see the map and usually keep my nav muted since it's useless to me and keeps interrupting music or podcasts or whatever.
