Here are a couple of interesting road-related pieces in today's issue of The New York Times. One is on navigating manually with maps and the other is a political cartoon about neglecting our infrastructure.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/opinion/sunday/using-maps-vs-gps.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/07/08/opinion/sunday/the-strip.html
I guess I'm "medium-tech" when it comes to navigating. I use Google maps to plan my route, modifying the given directions to suit my route preferences. I print out the directions to use in the car since I don't have GPS and I don't always have street-level maps to use.
Quote from: 2Co5_14 on July 22, 2014, 12:45:20 PM
I guess I'm "medium-tech" when it comes to navigating. I use Google maps to plan my route, modifying the given directions to suit my route preferences. I print out the directions to use in the car since I don't have GPS and I don't always have street-level maps to use.
Similar here.
I use my GPS as a guide for when I'm going somewhere new. I look my route up ahead of time though and if I see a deviation I want to make, I'll set up cities along the route as via points. I have a bad memory and don't like to read while driving so that helps me.
As an example: If I'm driving from Michigan to Boston but want to miss the NY Thurway AND Canada. I'll set up Binghamton, NY as a via point. If I just want to miss Canada, I'll use Cleveland, OH as a via point.