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Nobody uses geometry to read a map

> http://www.uvm.edu/~goldbar/FM3_25.26.pdf

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Trila...

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrodynamics

Geometry is important for navigation in different ways, depending on the scale and dimensionality of which you are thinking.



The average person is neither inventing GPS nor navigator on a sailing vessel.




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