[show] How to walk down the street without involving a multinational corporation (and look good doin' it)

and finding your way.

The drawing of maps is full of colonial echoes. The civilised eye seeks to view the world from above, as something we can stand over and survey. The Uncivilized writer knows the world is, rather, something we are enmeshed in — a patchwork and a framework of places, experiences, sights, smells, sounds. Maps can lead, but can also mislead. Our maps must be the kind sketched in the dust with a stick, washed away by the next rain. They can be read only by those who ask to see them, and they cannot be bought.

Humans evolved some pretty amazing abilities to navigate on land. Our survival depended on it for hundreds of thousands of years. But somehow, with the rise of the culture of Plastic Rectangle People, many of us seem to have suddenly lost the ability to go for a walk or pop around the corner without using a massive multinational infrastructure to tell us when and where to turn. It can be convenient but has some pretty sad consequences.

I think there are a lot of us who prefer (at least sometimes) to find our way using some means other than a network connected telephone. Using your knowledge, wits, paper maps, landmarks, signs or help from kind strangers