I ignore hectoring instructions and commanding blue lines and choose my own route based not on efficiency, but pleasure.
Following Google Maps or similar route-makers on my phone or car GPS is easy. I bring up the journey on my screen. Follow the instructions. Hurtle along a motorway. Keep my head down if I’m walking, and get straight to where I want to go.
I prefer to use a paper map instead, or some version of it on a phone app that doesn’t give directions. A big fold-out paper map in particular places me in the wider urban setting and shows the relative locations of all the places I want to see. I can triangulate the monuments of Paris, or Berlin museums.
The light orange shading on Google Map purports to show areas of interest, but guess whose interest that serves? Inevitably I’m directed towards hotels, shops and restaurants.A paper map seldom bothers with commercial considerations. It’s more likely to mark minor local museums, windmills or castles.
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