Bob W wrote:
When you get off the road and out into the countryside following a map is a lot more difficult. The main difficulty is figuring out where you are if you do go astray.
That's when it's "helpful" to be able to visualize the terrain features depicted on the map and match them up with the terrain features around you. I don't think it's something that can easily be taught, other than by taking someone to a spot, handing them a good topo map of the area, and pointing out the real terrain on the one hand and the map's depiction of that same terrain on the other. At the end, it seems like the map reader largely has to figure out how to do it on their own, and some folks just don't seem to "think visually".
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