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[taiwan_girl]

How good is @Doctor-Phibes on this?

Map Used by London Taxi Drivers to Study for their Test

[Catseye3]

Thinking of changing careers, TG?

[taiwan_girl]

@Catseye3 LOL Nope. I have terrible direction sense!

[Doctor Phibes]

@taiwan_girl said in The Knowledge:

How good is @Doctor-Phibes on this?

London - that's that big city down south, right?

[Mik]

I have always been very good at coming to a new place, forming a map in my head and filling in. But I've been to a lot of places, so it would be natural. Now people have GPS, but I still do the same thing.

[89th]

@Mik said in The Knowledge:

I have always been very good at coming to a new place, forming a map in my head and filling in. But I've been to a lot of places, so it would be natural. Now people have GPS, but I still do the same thing.

I enjoy that too. Normally I view the directions in Google Maps (just the overview of the route) so I have my bearings before any drive. The one city I had an issue with this was Rome (well, this was in 2005 before I had a smart phone or GPS). Never could get my bearings, it was weird.

[Mik]

Boston can be like that too, but I did not drive there very much. One night I met Quirt and Phibes at a pub for a few. It was raining when we left so Phibes was kind enough to give me a ride back to my hotel. It was pretty comical as he didn't know this particular part of downtown and I didn't know it as well as I thought.

[Copper]

@Mik said in The Knowledge:

Boston can be like that too, but I did not drive there very much.

Few, if any, Boston drivers will reference North, South, East, West. It just doesn't work that way there.

[Doctor Phibes]

You could place me in any part of Boston and guarantee that I’d be hopelessly lost before I’d driven a couple of blocks. The city’s roads are nonsensical, and I have no sense of direction whatsoever.

[Catseye3]

For me it was Louisville.