Dystopian Maps Vs. Satellite Navigation Systems

Since the early centuries people had been relying on maps to help them travel or to explore different place. Maps was one of the tools for helping people to get where they needed to go, however, as technology is improving hand drawn maps are being replaced with digitalize maps. Global Positioning System can pin point the exact location much easier then hand drawn maps, which people are required additional tools to plan out the places they wanted to map while the satellite navigation system are much easier for people to use. Although satellite navigation system can pin point a location very quickly, regular maps still have the advantage to what satellite navigation system does not have. In the early centuries people have being using maps to travel in different places. A portolan chart are navigational maps that is based on compass directions, and it does not rely on lines of latitude and longitude. People had use different ways to map out different places …show more content…
Since modern technology helped us to make our life easier for people to get their information and location, if the satellite had a malfunction or some sort then anything that uses GPS would become useless. Also, a map can be reliable from time to time when the GPS does not work and if people who rely on a GPS the most would have some trouble reading a map.

Since the early centuries mapmakers have always drawn out the map for people to us, but as technology is improving hand drawn maps are being replaced with more direct pin pointing system. The global positioning system people help people get to their destination quicker than before. Although satellite navigation system has changed the old way of map making, but as times goes on maps are going to be different than before, not only will map shows the location on earth but somewhere beyond