[ale] [OT] Please Help me with my homework

[Drifter]

In this area I have found the GPS solves one very common problem:
I know how to get from house to location A in in Duluth and I know how to 
get from house to location B in Roswell, but I have no clue how to get 
directly from A to B.
And the GPS is also useful on the scooter as it shows me how to get places 
while avoiding the interstates.

Sean
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On Friday, April 01, 2011 11:13:50 am Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 4/1/2011 10:59 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> >> I wonder how the advent of the map direction GPS is influencing
> >> spatial
> >> 
> >> > ability? (And lets not guess, research only...)
> > 
> > Just like calculators have let my mental math skills get rusty, I
> > find that although I used to be really good about remembering
> > directions after one visit to a location, I now find I dig out the
> > GPS for multiple trips to the same location.  I now, consciously
> > note the directions the first time, and then don't use the GPS after
> > that.
> 
> Unless I haven't been there before, I rarely use a GPS. For long trips,
> where I have been there before, I use it to find gas stations, food,
> etc.. My wife has bad night vision, so it is beneficial for her to use
> it every time she drives at night.  My Garmin is going on 5 years old,
> so new roads & new points of interest are really lacking.. What I did
> for my LAST trip to New Orleans, was, I googled the restaurant I
> wanted to stop at ( cracker barrel ) to plot out where they were along
> the route so I could better plan my meals:) . There is like 140 miles
> of barren highway on I-65 south, between Montgomery & Mobile..
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