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Re:Using QGIS to apply a 1777 style to today's OpenStreetMap... by dylan604 on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:44AM (#31248214)
I find this quite sad and humorous at the same time. Personally, I'm one that loves looking at maps to familiarize myself with street names in an area of interest rather than the specific route the great Map gods of the cloud have decided for me. I tend to not rely on turn by turn navigation, and actually find it quite annoying with its incessant "in 500ft", "in 400ft", "in 300ft" kind of nagging. Being around people that are absolutely dependant on turn-by-turn directions make gives me a laugh though. On a cross country trip where you're on the same major high going West for >1000m doesn't need turn by turn, yet I've been on a trip with someone that had a damn near panic attack because I started driving without the navigation running. Sad they were that stressed about it, but still damn funny
Re:Using QGIS to apply a 1777 style to today's OpenStreetMap... by marssaxman on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:43PM (#31250426)
My partner relies completely on navigation assistants, but they didn't exist when I learned to drive, and I never bothered to adopt them. What's funny is that I feel just as stressed out trying to drive with the navigator as my partner does without it! I am so used to having a high-level sense of the route, and knowing the scale of the turns and the roads involved, that I feel confused and disoriented if I try to just blindly follow the directions. I'm not very good at blindly following, either - I can't relate the distances given to a real-world sense of scale, so I frequently miss turns. Really funny how different the mental strategies used to solve the same problem can be.
Re:Using QGIS to apply a 1777 style to today's OpenStreetMap... by wtallis on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:01PM (#31250655)
People being that reliant on turn by turn navigation is not just sad, it's also quite dangerous. Any time the navigation app's instructions are wrong, unclear or simply a bit too late, it is quite likely to cause that kind of driver to make a sudden and unsafe maneuver. Having a general familiarity with your planned route and its surroundings before you put the car in gear goes a long way toward preventing those panicked reactions.