I've often joked that I can tell up from down, but that's about it.
my general terror of trying to find places I've never been
Yes! And no matter how good someone's directions were back in the days before Google Maps, there'd be mistakes, some little minor omission that would become an unrecoverable error for someone like me.
I find both satellite view and street view useful, but, as you suggest, not infallible, because of my difficulty relating what's on that screen to what's before my eyes. Things feel different on the ground.
Hence my falling in love with the voice directions. If you'd asked me a year ago, I'd have said, "Oh hell no, that would drive me crazy with annoyance," but in actual practice it's such a boon and relieves my mind of so much stress, that it's my new favorite thing in the whole wide world. No confusing, irreconcilable visuals. Just a navigator in your ear. It's AWESOME.
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my general terror of trying to find places I've never been
Yes! And no matter how good someone's directions were back in the days before Google Maps, there'd be mistakes, some little minor omission that would become an unrecoverable error for someone like me.
I find both satellite view and street view useful, but, as you suggest, not infallible, because of my difficulty relating what's on that screen to what's before my eyes. Things feel different on the ground.
Hence my falling in love with the voice directions. If you'd asked me a year ago, I'd have said, "Oh hell no, that would drive me crazy with annoyance," but in actual practice it's such a boon and relieves my mind of so much stress, that it's my new favorite thing in the whole wide world. No confusing, irreconcilable visuals. Just a navigator in your ear. It's AWESOME.