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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 3021475" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I am a 50 year old with 30 years in.</p><p>I am not a technophobe. I have an iphone with the Mapquest app and there have been many occasions where it has come in handy for work.</p><p>That being said, there is really no substitute for learning to read a map and figuring out how to intuitively find addresses based upon the number grid for your area. It will not help you in the long run to become overly reliant upon technology.</p><p>One of the drawbacks to cell phone maps is that the small size of the screen prevents you from "getting the big picture" of how the route is geographically set up.</p><p>Before you spend $600 on that watch, please try this: buy a map book, and make photocopies of the pages that pertain to your delivery area. Tape those pages together to make one big map. tape that map to your bulkhead door, or the roof above your seat, or clip it to the visor. Make notes, in pencil, of number breaks, where you start pickups, where your bulk stops are etc. This will really help you visualize the way you need to run the route. Go ahead and use your phone app to locate specific addresses if you need to, but go to the map first and try to figure out, on your own, where that address is based upon the number.</p><p>Technology can be a great tool, but it also makes a terrible crutch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 3021475, member: 14668"] I am a 50 year old with 30 years in. I am not a technophobe. I have an iphone with the Mapquest app and there have been many occasions where it has come in handy for work. That being said, there is really no substitute for learning to read a map and figuring out how to intuitively find addresses based upon the number grid for your area. It will not help you in the long run to become overly reliant upon technology. One of the drawbacks to cell phone maps is that the small size of the screen prevents you from "getting the big picture" of how the route is geographically set up. Before you spend $600 on that watch, please try this: buy a map book, and make photocopies of the pages that pertain to your delivery area. Tape those pages together to make one big map. tape that map to your bulkhead door, or the roof above your seat, or clip it to the visor. Make notes, in pencil, of number breaks, where you start pickups, where your bulk stops are etc. This will really help you visualize the way you need to run the route. Go ahead and use your phone app to locate specific addresses if you need to, but go to the map first and try to figure out, on your own, where that address is based upon the number. Technology can be a great tool, but it also makes a terrible crutch. [/QUOTE]
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