Neil BrownCan you navigate reliably with a map and compass?
| Yes | |
| No | |
| You really are old, Neil. We have smartphones now. No-one needs these basic offline skills. |
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Kim@neil Horrifically out of practice, but in principle, yes.
@neil I should add that this is more about body than technology. My Stupid Knee isn't really rated for hiking, which was the main context in which I ever used a paper map and compass to navigate. (I use a dedicated GPS receiver for cycling navigation, simply because of the convenience of it being waterproof, backlit and easily mounted on a bike. To say nothing of not having to stop to re-fold it, and it recording a track of where you've been.)
TomTom et al were becoming a mainstream thing at around the time I passed my driving test, so my experience of map-based car navigation is all from being another driver's navigator. That doesn't generally require a compass, of course.
TomTom et al were becoming a mainstream thing at around the time I passed my driving test, so my experience of map-based car navigation is all from being another driver's navigator. That doesn't generally require a compass, of course.
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