Culture
This Mapping App Is Designed for Urban Wanderers
Bid goodbye to the beaten path and hello to an assortment of crowd-sourced shops, bars, and cafés.
By the most brutal logic, maps exist to get you from point A to point B. Navigation tools like Google Maps prioritize efficiency, generating routes that cater to a presumed preference for speed.
In a sense, they’re not wrong; time is a diminishing commodity. But by sticking only to the fastest paths through a city, you miss the very things about it that might incite you to slow down and notice what’s around you.