The effect of GPS on geo-intelligence

Some interesting reaction to an ABC News article titled Will GPS Make Us Dumb?.

Geocarta points out that "One problem with Ms. Shasha's argument is that she presupposes that everyone actually had a sense of direction in the first place. Lots of people, my wife included, don't."

The Map Room has similar issues with the initial report, quite rightly pointing out that "spell-checking doesn’t make you less literate; it removes the requirement for you to be more literate. Ditto here: GPS isn’t making us dumb; it’s making it easier for us to stay dumb."