Elena ``of Valhalla''

Navigation, ancients-style

Elena ``of Valhalla'' at

The GPS on my firefoxOS phone has been acting up lately: it has never been exceptionally good, but the last couple of times I've tried to use it it gave errors of more than 1km.

Saturday evening we were in a place with internet (and laptops) and had to go to a new-to-us restaurants, so I asked for routing from OSMR, took notes on paper and this is what I gave to my navigator/co-driver:

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Unbelievably we managed to get there in time, without missing even one of the turns, even if he wasn't able to decipher my writing on some of the street names.

Italian readers may also appreciate the maturity of some of the labelling, if they are able to decipher the writing.

Also, in case we decide to go back to that restaurant with the LUG, I guess I can just point them to this post and of course they will be able to get there, right? :D

One day I will have a GPS-enabled device that is not designed to steal my data first and be useful to me as an aftertought. And one that works.

Ancient style FTW!! =)

JanKusanagi at 2017-10-15T17:58:13Z