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

[Tom Freeman]

On 04/01/2011 04:11 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
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> Being an old fogey doesn’t mean the same as being an old dog – you can 
> learn new tricks. I have a road atlas and usually stop and get the 
> state map for whatever states I’m going through and I used them often 
> for various trips. However, once Mapquest became available I didn’t 
> feel I’d dumbed myself down any for using nor do I feel that way using 
> the GPS built in the car I bought 2 years ago. For my last few major 
> road trips I’ve printed Mapquest AND used the GPS mainly to see what 
> the differences were. They do tend to pick slightly different routes. 
> On my Saskatchewan trip Mapquest had me bypassing Wisconsin and going 
> into Minnesota but my GPS put me through western Wisconsin.
>
Sorry if I gave the impression of not learning new tricks. I do have a 
GPS, I do use a GPS, and I do use online maps. I also irritate the girl 
friend by not stopping and asking questions early enough for her to be 
comfortable.

Best use of a GPS to date for me has been has been giving it to an older 
female relative. She gets fascinated by our position crawling around a 
map, and stays quiet and happy while we get to our destination.

The inner city of Atlanta strikes me as a nice place to have either GPS 
or a navigator, with a navigator being prefered. Like the city of 
Boston, blamed place was laid out by drunk cattle... (And yes, I've had 
to navigate both cities solo by car. Both can be interesting experiences.)

What my original query was, is there any information known to this list 
that suggests GPS modules are a help, or a hinderance, to people in 
general learning to navigate the real world. So far, a lot of blather, 
and I'm guilty also, and not a drop of data.
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Drifter
> *Sent:* Friday, April 01, 2011 3:28 PM
> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] [OT] Please Help me with my homework
>
> Aha, you might have been able to vote in Australia. :)
>
> Sean
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> On Friday, April 01, 2011 02:17:05 pm Tom Freeman wrote:
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> > 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.
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