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

[Tom Freeman]

Back in the day (old fogey here) we had that capability. Called a map. 
8-)  Some of us even learned how to fold them up nicely.



On 04/01/2011 12:55 PM, Drifter wrote:
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> In this area I have found the GPS solves one very common problem:
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> 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.
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> And the GPS is also useful on the scooter as it shows me how to get 
> places while avoiding the interstates.
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> Sean
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> On Friday, April 01, 2011 11:13:50 am Paul Cartwright wrote:
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> > On 4/1/2011 10:59 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
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> > >> I wonder how the advent of the map direction GPS is influencing
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> > >> spatial
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> > >>
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> > >> > ability? (And lets not guess, research only...)
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> > >
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> > > Just like calculators have let my mental math skills get rusty, I
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> > > find that although I used to be really good about remembering
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> > > directions after one visit to a location, I now find I dig out the
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> > > GPS for multiple trips to the same location. I now, consciously
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> > > note the directions the first time, and then don't use the GPS after
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> > > that.
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> >
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> > Unless I haven't been there before, I rarely use a GPS. For long trips,
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> > where I have been there before, I use it to find gas stations, food,
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> > etc.. My wife has bad night vision, so it is beneficial for her to use
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> > it every time she drives at night. My Garmin is going on 5 years old,
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> > so new roads & new points of interest are really lacking.. What I did
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> > for my LAST trip to New Orleans, was, I googled the restaurant I
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> > wanted to stop at ( cracker barrel ) to plot out where they were along
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> > the route so I could better plan my meals:) . There is like 140 miles
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> > of barren highway on I-65 south, between Montgomery & Mobile..
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