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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Is GPS All in Our Heads?
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:20:05 +0000
From: McEathron, Scott R <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
It is just an opinion--no real science behind it at all. I think the
opposite is true. GPS introduces more people to maps and way finding at
a younger age. GPS allows you to check, and if necessary correct, your
"cognitive map" as you go along. The opinion is based on a flawed
assumption in the article: " a GPS
device normally provides bare-bones route information." I guess
if the GPS was from 1990 that might be true. But now a GPS enabled
device is more likely to have more detail than a paper map--not less.
-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Is GPS All in Our Heads?
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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]>
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
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