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Subject:Re: Maps vs GPS
Date:Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:00:10 -0500

I spent about 30 minutes once trying to find a Ryder fuel location.
We had a book with all the locations listed each with a little map.
I finally ended up calling them from a pay phone.  (no cell phone
back then)  Their map was drawn upside down.  South was on the top.
I went the wrong direction from the highway exit.

Steve
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On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote:

> A wonderful person I know, one I admire much, and who supervises 156
> persons and handles a budget of several millions of dollars in
> professional life, always turns a map so that the direction of
> travel is
> at the top.  When I asked why not just keep N at the top, this person
> told me that keeping the direction of travel at the top wasn't
> confusing.  So -- going S, put S at the top of the map.  Kinda
> mixes up
> the E is right, N is up and so on business I learned in first grade
> from
> the maps on the wall, but oh well.
>
> David McNeely
>