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Is GPS All in Our Heads?
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"Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:13:31 -0600
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Subject:        Is GPS All in Our Heads?
Date:   Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:26:46 -0500
From:   Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
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  From Saturday's _NY Times_:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/is-gps-all-in-our-head.html?ref=opinion>.

A brief paragraph from the article by Julia Frankenstein:

     If maps help us, what is the problem with GPS? A lot: in my opinion,
     it is likely that the more we rely on technology to find our way,
     the less we build up our cognitive maps. Unlike a city map, a GPS
     device normally provides bare-bones route information, without the
     spatial context of the whole area. We see the way from A to Z, but
     we don’t see the landmarks along the way. Developing a cognitive map
     from this reduced information is a bit like trying to get an entire
     musical piece from a few notes.

Joel Kovarsky

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