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Unless yer "on the water" using GPS or a map will revoke your man card
 .A phone map might not .... but only after wandering in the desert for 40 years.... 'Cause I'm a wandering wonder 
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Places like Vermont have no direct route from one city to the next. The roads all are just intersections every few miles to another road, and constant turns and direction changes. You would have to pull over every few miles to find the next road to take with an analog map.
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My wife and I like the Waze app. Very good about letting you know about, cops, road debris, traffic, etc. along the way.
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This is a really interesting thread.
GPS is probably in the top five innovations in my lifetime and I have never, once the constellations were fully up, had any of the problems mentioned in this thread. I am not saying they did not happen, they have just never happened to me. All of my cars have the Compact RM Road Atlas but I haven't opened one in 5 years. DC is one of the truly hard cities to drive in nav-wise...without GPS I would constantly be pulling over. There are Parking garage references on Waze that cover all nearby parking. Won't drive without it.
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GPS is like any other tool: Understand it, practice with it and know how it is properly used.
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Back when i was still trucking i was stuck in Augusta Ga. for the weekend (wide load restriction).
There happened to be another guy stuck there as well with a wide load. The truck stop we were at only had a fast food restaurant. That evening he offered to drop his trailer and we'd go find a steakhouse some where. He does some googling and punches the add. into his GPS and off we go. Left out of the T.S., under the interstate, down a quarter mile, take a right, go left Etc. Etc. Finally cross back under the interstate and there's the steakhouse. If we'd got on the interstate and off the next exit we'd have been right there 
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I never use GPS. I guess I am just old or something but I prefer to have printed instructions in hand, but I will screenshot driving directions and have them on my phone.
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A friend posted this very recently. ( like today )
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GPS is great, but common sense and an overall knowledge of basic navigation go much further.
I have 5000 acres of woods behind my home that I enjoy hiking in. I navigate the marked trails for the most part. Some trails are better marked than others. I use the Avenza trail maps which are GPS enabled, but only as a tertiary source of navigation. Primary source: my knowledge of the terrain, destination, & understanding of my bearings / heading...etc. Secondary source: the trail markings (trail continues this way, switchback, intersection...etc). The same can be applied to travelling on the road - primary source of navigation: my research on how to get to said destination. Secondary: road signs. Third: GPS nav system.
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One thing I wish the GPS makers and app makers would have is an option that is simple "Keep me out of the ghetto" even if I have to drive further. One two occasions my GPS has rerouted me from a traffic jam through some parts of St. Louis and South side Chicago that I would not ever want to see again.
When we ordered my wife's Macan we deliberately did not get the GPS function, just Apple play. We can put the iPhone display right on the video screen and run the phone from that, and the map is always updated with the phone. For my 911 I use a Garmin that is Bluetoothed to cell phone and it gets updates from that and I only use it on road trips.
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Whenever I travel on the Ducati it is with the aforementioned Butler maps as I prefer to focus on piloting. Then I consult the maps at gas stops. I do get some bemused looks.
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That'd be cool. I think.
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