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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday May 13 2018, @10:27AM (1 child)
Doesn't really seem to matter. Virginia and Tennessee ain't exactly known for their gridline roads or lack of sky-obscuring weather either but neither bother me even a little.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 13 2018, @12:55PM
Yup... anywhere in mountainous terrain does NOT have straight roads... they twist and turn all over the place, constrained by elevation grading.