Interesting road-related New York Times pieces

[dgolub]

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

[2Co5_14]

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.

[PHLBOS]

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.

[The Nature Boy]

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.