-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Is GPS All in Our Heads?
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:05:39 -0700
From: Mark Walker <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


The database of businesses that comes on your GPS is the selling point.
It is remarkable how well this is organized for us. It is not meant as a
replacement for maps but as a compliment to them. I have never had a
customer for a Mexico GPS map tell me that they had no other maps for
their trip.

Mark Walker
Another Army Brat
Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 6, 2012, at 7:48 AM, "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society
Library,UW Milwaukee" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Is GPS All in Our Heads?
> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:42:29 -0500 (EST)
> From: Paige G Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> Thanks for sharing this Joel. And..."amen" to Julie! I totally agree,
> especially in the context of moving around in an urban environment, but
> also even to mentally grasp the road networks across regions, states or
> the country. For me, as an Army brat having moved multiple times across
> country growing up, and then adding many experieces as an adult on my
> own road trips, another advantage to building and growing our mental
> maps is that it also builds self-confidence (and paper maps or road
> atlases still work beautifully for this today). If I had to jump in my
> car today and drive, say, to Gillette, Wyoming, I wouldn't give it a
> second thought because I know it lies on I-90 and I've driven the
> upper-midsection of the U.S. several times. GPS is a great tool, very
> helpful in a variety of situations, but if one totally relies on it (and
> the errors in the data that do lead people astray, sometimes tragically)
> they lack the context of the environment they're in.
>
> Paige
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Monday, February 6, 2012 9:13:31 AM
> Subject: Is GPS All in Our Heads?
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Is GPS All in Our Heads?
> Date:   Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:26:46 -0500
> From:   Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
>  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