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Nature is full of clues to help you find your way – if you know where to look. Stuart Heritage lets go of the GPS to learn the art of natural navigation from pioneer Tristan Gooley
[...] How to navigate in a city
Look for satellite dishes. They all point towards the equator. In London, that is roughly south-southeast.
Find an 'invisible handrail' and use it to remember your bearings. In the countryside, this might be a river. In a city, it could be a main road.
Look at a tree. Do the branches point a certain way? That's probably south. Are the leaves on those branches smaller than the leaves on the opposite side? That's definitely south.
Use the sun. It rises in the east, sets in the west and moves through the southern sky, giving you a very basic compass.
Need to get home? Head against the flow of people at the start of the day or with the flow at the end and you are pretty much guaranteed to find a station.
Source: Ditching the satnav: the lost secrets of natural navigation
(Score: 3, Funny) by Megahard on Sunday May 13 2018, @02:15AM (3 children)
Or you could ask one of those people where's the train station.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13 2018, @02:53AM (2 children)
Nobody talks to anyone anymore. Not even females. This is the XXIst century after all.
But if some in the flow and you have smartphones (99.99% in the typical flow do), you could try one of those
spychat apps after some qrcode negotiation./s
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13 2018, @03:15AM (1 child)
Well, I don't own a smartphone any more (upgraded to a feature phone), so instead I always carry a sextant with me in case this exact scenario comes up.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13 2018, @03:46AM
Everyone carries a sextoy these days. Especially females. Nobody has the time to get to know the man behind the cock. Dildos and vibrators don't have opinions and prejudices and political views.