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04 October 2011

Sound Off! GPS or Map & Compass

Which one are you?

I want my GPS! I always know exactly where I am and where I'm headed, and there's more than enough batteries to go around

I want my map and compass! I'm old-school and paper is the only way for me. Let me decide where to go and how to get there.

Sound off in the comments below!

By: Brant
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12 comments:

  1. Pete Maidhof04 October, 2011 16:47

    Old school sure was cool.

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  2. Anonymous04 October, 2011 16:57

    Gee, you have to ask this old infantryman here?
    Map n' compass, always and ever.
    Satellites get shot down or jammed or spoofed, but the North Magnetic Pole isn't going offline any time soon.

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  3. Jerry04 October, 2011 19:25

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  4. Jerry04 October, 2011 19:26

    Old school, unless a bomb is involved. :)

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  5. Guardian04 October, 2011 21:22

    Old school, even for this technophile. There is an elegance to navigating with a map and compass.

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  6. Matt Purvis04 October, 2011 23:57

    Map and Compass, all the way. I can still find my way when your batteries are dead.

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  7. Brant05 October, 2011 11:55

    I wonder how much of the affinity for map-and-compass among the wargamers is related to their love of all things maps...

    I'm curious too what a younger generation might think. let's face it - most of our readership skews over 30, and probably older than that.

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  8. Pete Maidhof05 October, 2011 15:54

    Due to the over-reliance on all things GPS, not certain how much of the younger generation would hold a map and compass in esteem compared to us old geezer grunts who had not else to work with if you don't count the stars. ;)

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  9. Anonymous05 October, 2011 17:18

    Brant, you're involved with Scouts aren't you - do they teach much map-and-compass still?

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  10. Brant05 October, 2011 17:33

    "do they teach much map-and-compass still?"

    They do at our Pack :)

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  11. Matt Purvis06 October, 2011 18:11

    Map and compass is still a requirement for rank advancement in the Boy Scouts.

    zionise? That's the captcha word? Wow.

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  12. Brant07 October, 2011 01:03

    I don't get to pick the captchas guys :P

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