• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    You didn’t need to know north.

    lol how do you orient the map then?

    I act like kids need experience and practice.

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      10 hours ago

      Are you confused as to which way to hold a book?

      You don’t need to know North when reading a road map. It isn’t Boy Scouts where you have a terrain map and you are trying to orientate yourself to unlabeled terrain.

      You have road intersections labeled in real life and on the map. You only need to know to travel along a road and turn right or left until you get to the next road at which point you again turn right or left until you reach your destination.

      My friend’s 1990’s era Jaguar came with a navigation that worked like that. There was no map. It was a text display that displayed directions as turn by turn directions.