A sense of direction: Finding your way without GPS

[@yasisoufi]

I love CBS Sunday Morning. The funniest thing the topics of the program relates to the subjects my aunt and I talk about weekly! Sometimes it’s scary! I am beginning to think they listen to our talks! 😂 believe me we talked about navigation senses yesterday! We live oceans and continents apart but we kept these weekly talks . It’s funny to see our topics here! What a lovely long lasting program.

[@FredomcompassionLove]

Agree. Thank God for youtube....🤣

[@jennymacallan9071]

Among the many things we have lost to technology are the pleasures of trial and error, of serendipity.

[@sharonolsen6579]

On an impromptu trip from Utah to LA .. (early 1990's) We arrived early in the morning.. after driving all night , and were completely LOST .. We pulled into a gas station .. bought a map.. I opened it up .. tried to comprehend what I was looking at .. and burst out in tears !! ** We asked directions ... LOL the trip was an adventure of a lifetime .. !!

[@my2cents2u]

Not only can I read a map, _I can fold it_ exactly the way it came! : D

[@ElCapitanDeLaNoche]

...the force is strong with this one...

[@dp7534]

Thank you! My sense of direction has always been poor and almost a handicap. I’m old school, but have been SO thankful fir my iPhone when I’ve gotten lost- truly has been a lifesaver! I’ve marveled and have been envious my husband’s sense of direction. Gonna have to work on my own ability! Thanks for the enlightening story!!

[@a697ag]

I've never had a good memory for names but I'm very lucky in having great memory for landmarks, orientation and sense of direction. One of my friends always joked that one of the reasons I'm always asked to come on road trips is because if we get lost, I can just stick my head out the window and sniff ... I also bring great snacks

[@markberryhill2715]

You sound like a true road dog warrior!

[@chrisfinch8637]

Before all those directional phone apps, there were Atlases and mainly maps.

[@ParkerAllen2]

My grandfather was the handiest person I knew, could fix anything. He also had an excellent sense of direction. Because I'm not handy and have a poor sense of direction, I always thought his two skills might be related somehow; as if the same part of the brain that could look at an object and map out how to fix it was also the part of the brain that provided an internal map of how to get from one location to another.

[@terryg4415]

I still love maps, and I miss being able to find a new map book to replace my tattered atlas of my area!

[@tjwash2]

I miss the days when I could intentionally show up late for something and say that I just got a little lost. 😕

[@rr7firefly]

Not mentioned is the awareness of the sun's position at different times of the day. I can tell in which direction I am moving just by noticing shadows. At mid morning shadows will point in a westerly direction. In the middle of the day, northward generally. And so on. It amazes me that so many people have absolutely no idea which way north, south, east and west are. They will tell you where they are by saying stuff like, "It's on the left side of the street, etc." That left and right business is worthless if you do not know where the starting point is and where one is heading.

[@larrysouthern5098]

Yep.... 👀

[@lynnchotoocho9713]

An advantage to being on an island is you can pretty much know where you are just by seeing where the ocean is at. Instead of left and right, we say mauka (toward the mountains ) and makai ( toward the sea ). Think I'd be lost if I were landlocked. Then again, if I look where the sun rises and sets, might be easier to find my way. Who knows ?

[@rr7firefly]

@@lynnchotoocho9713 Your navigation by landmarks = a very efficient way to orient. In cities where there is a visible skyline, a person can find his/her position by referencing the cluster of buildings. One usually knows the way those buildings are positioned relative to each other, so that is additional info of use.

[@natellecheung8789]

It took us 3 hours to get to a place that was 15 minutes away because our GPS setting was off for toll roads. Then on another trip, the signals were so weak from the high rises that i ended up using the maps i printed before the trip. Good old maps! Love them!

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Thank you for this video about knowing your area around you. Having been a Purser Flight for ten years now, I always find myself looking around the street areas and buildings while i am on layovers in different cities. Whether I am in the US or on international layovers. I just always try to remember where my hotel is and anchor my thoughts and walk from there.

[@TheRoute.]

The sun rises from the East and sets in the west that's my first direction tool!

[@tobechukwuolumba7337]

Very much a traveling story about going somewhere without a GPS.

[@aguerra1381]

It is amazing to me the lengths some go to in explaining how things work without including the supernatural order and it's direction over the natural.

[@brucegelman5582]

Great segment.The joy of noticing details on hikes makes life worth living

[@HicamorHaecpatriaest]

Land Nav is very familiar to anyone who has been in the Army (in any capacity whatsoever).

[@Ma_Ba]

My dearly departed dad was a WWII AAF navigator. We have a "bold navigator" sign from a NE fishing port using a sextant in 19th century. It wasn't until I took Newtonian physics that I saw the algebraic formulas for triangulation that I understood what calculations were involved in air flight and, sadly, dropping bombs. (The bombs in WWII did not always hit intended targets.)

[@mccomasd]

When is that Direction game gonna be released?

[@frankpappalardo4455]

Thank you

[@joanneweiss3864]

This is me....my 27 yo son says I'm the only one who could live in a small county 40 yrs & still get lost!!!! Funny/sad 😆my place & grid cells don't work!

[@Tipperary757]

Same here! No problem growing up in Chicago due to grid + large lake to the East. In the woods, I can't navigate and in messy cities (no easy grid), I may never emerge again.

[@TheBaldr]

When I was a kid, I would mentally map out and remember almost every street my parents ever drove me down. I could get them back to a place if I had only been there once. Then I started playing video games, and the hundreds of worlds mapped out in my head, I think I overloaded and used up all the cells. I now need technology to help get me around.

[@SandyWolf-]

Your place cells burned out🤣🤣🤣

[@johnmcnulty4425]

Young people seem to be incapable of finding their way without a GPS. So glad I grew up reading maps!

[@debbralehrman5957]

I'm the navigator in the car and on trips. I notices land marks I have since I was a kid. Good report👍🏼

[@toscatattertail9813]

The first thing i do when i move into a city is learn how it's set up so i can navigate better. The first time i used GPS it sent me in a 5 mile wide circle. More recently i tried to hire a cab for a ride to a mall that is 9 miles from me and was told the ride would be $50. i asked why and they told me they had to follow the GPS route, so i put the information in myself and saw the route they would have to take which took them 15 miles out of the way to my destination.

[@SandyWolf-]

I remember back in late 80s I met a guy in Ft. Pierce Florida that told me he was working on a computer map that would be in every car one day the GPS I thought he was crazy? If only I listened

[@Chet_Brinkley]

One of the best I have seen here !

[@jeanetteschock4744]

I'd hate it when you ex would refuse to ask for directions. I'm single now and I don't get lost 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@suen5006]

I have an excellent sense of direction, my husband gets lost constantly. I like maps, he wants printed directions. If I study the map ahead of time, I get orientated and it helps. I don't use GPS. I knew North and South before I knew left and right.

[@gigibluestockings5168]

I like to Google a map of the area & memorize the street names. When I get there I'm not so lost.

[@JackycClark]

As new drivers my friends and I drove around the county trying to get lost . We'd just turn randomly at intersections over and over . We gained skills and lost fear .

[@katherineburford7864]

Natural Navigation is a great tool, knowing how to read water, plants, animals, air, space and time. The books and you tubes about it are fascinating. Underwater lightning, tribal navigation, mathematics of horizon's distance, termite mounds, church steeples, Purkinje Effect, Century Plants, atmospheric optics, and countless other phenomena create a rich tapestry of direction even when you pocket your GPS, map and compass. But keep them on you and use the ranger's methods also.

[@williamgilpin3693]

Spent 10 years driving across the states and I can pretty much drive anywhere without getting lost. Took the wife to st Paul and drove to were I had to go and she said been here before, said nope first time.

[@elizabethmills8667]

Landmarks have always been my direction guide. Even in na

[@Ma_Ba]

When the World Trade Centers were felled 9/11, for a while I had lost my landmark of South/Downtown when walking in Manhattan. Before that, when I came out of a subway, I used to look for them to reorient myself from coming up from underground.

[@AD-zg7fw]

Since replacing our memory of important phone numbers with smart phones, humanity has become more useless. Same with navigation. Great idea for a segment!

[@celestine1964]

I agree with you. That's why I go hiking in an area that doesn't have cell service.

[@AD-zg7fw]

@@celestine1964 it's always good to have a backup plan, if you can afford one and like to go out into nature get a satellite phone. They're cheap it's the call (per minute) that is expensive.

[@RealMTBAddict]

@@celestine1964 you don't need service to see your location with GPS.

[@reneemoreno8030]

Follow the sun (west) and shadows...at night the stars...North.

[@bonnierobinson8684]

So very interesting! Thank you so very much!

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

I have said it a number of times: How can you know where you’re going unless you know where you’ve been? If we don’t take the time to look around and see where we’ve come from I think it deprives us from appreciating landmarks available to us just as birds or any other animal as they move from place to place.

[@margaretpeabody243]

In maps the most helpful thing for me is the, "you are here", indicator; as implied in the final thought of this clip.

[@rickblasing1237]

Great story. I don't know where I fall as a navigator. I've never had problems navigating large metro areas, but I am a directionally challenged hiker who, for better or worse, has become fairly reliant on technology to prevent me from losing my way.

[@ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276]

Those are som nice Baldi’s Basics graphics you got there.

[@tea98988]

As a female, I have a great sense of direction and can always find my way when traveling. However, I can’t read paper maps if my life depends on it.

[@TheDgdunn62]

That's my talent. Long before Waze, I would look at a map and visualize the layout by memory before going to a new city or country.

[@billsteinly8105]

I could imagine different GPS apps arguing with each other on navigation and on correct pronunciations. Then you find out you could have gone straight through a certain path instead of looping around like a pretzel.

[@xs5783]

Good Morning :)

[@Ira06002]

You’ve got to look around to see where you’re going.

[@Ma_Ba]

Amen. The closing sentence to this segment felt like a Zen statement also.

[@carmelaszymanski8104]

Remember..MAPS??

[@pilotman012]

What is notch for on side of Vermont Game Warden's hat brim?

[@PeaceOfGrace]

i know where i am going & i know Who to follow. Mark 8:33-38. i once was lost…

[@MrPrentissDJones]

Just sitting on a rock and noticing your surroundings. That was a part of wilderness survival in the Boy Scouts. Boy Scouts is not the same anymore, now they have girls.

[@blindnessisaspectrum6237]

See being the key word. Now what about people that are visually blind?

[@Ma_Ba]

I know that getting lost is associated with Alzheimer's symptomatically too. A loss of higher functioning is signaled when not being able to find home base. Note that is even in familiar territory and not the same as adventuring and orienteering skills.

[@atimko123]

I do the crazy Ivan when using a parking structure

[@RealMTBAddict]

I used to deliver pizza before smartphones were around. I had to look up addresses on a paper map and plan my route. Don't think kids these days could do that, they would have a panic attack.

[@SandyWolf-]

My place cells got misplaced

[@randomexploring541]

Wait, what does this segment have to do with fleas? How do fleas benefit this segment for the better?

[@waxxxdripdrop2736]

I know how to find my way through a forest of trees but I have no idea how to find my way to the right exit lol

[@2012photograph]

Some GPS apps take one the long way your destination.

[@kokomokid4006]

If you have never been truly lost...your not trying hard enough

[@RealMTBAddict]

You're

[@debt2055]

I 100% of the time get left and right switched.

[@merryhunt9153]

They make everything so abstract and confusing. First, study a map of your homeland. Learn where north, south, east and west are. Study the streets, Are they N-S-E-W, cul-de-sacs, diagonals, parallel to rivers? Look at the main streets and big parks, malls, campuses. Outdoors, learn where the sun comes up and goes down. Don't be like this video - don't go into deep woods at noon and expect to understand where you're going. (A map isn't much help in a featureless landscape like that.)

[@xilem7126]

Haha most people my age would be so lost.

[@margaretsparksrittenhouse8787]

LOL!!!!

[@xs5783]

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[@bobdadnaila7708]

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