Speaking of Gay Behaviour.

[flood22]

If I'm familiar with an area, I'll use both landmarks and roads and distances....and my GPS.

I love close to the country, and out here it's easier to use landmarks at times, especially when the road signs and posts are small or non-existent. Sometimes I don't have a choice!

 

[Yooper]

Depends on where I am. Larger cities on a grid pattern I use addresses and cross streets. Small towns I use landmarks because they seem to be less mathematically laid out. Then there are old cities that grew up long before cars (London springs to mind) it is essential to use a map and if I had it, GPS too. Then landmarks become more important. And of course, get out to the 'burbs with the pretty curvy streets and it becomes hopeless.

I'll agree with G-Lex about Denver, it's actually pretty well laid out. And the bonus is the numbered streets all run east-west, starting at 1st and goes all the way now to 160th or something, and the north-south streets are named alphabetically (i.e., Tennyson, Utica, Vrain, Winona, Xavier, Yates, Zenobia, etc.)

 

[Seifer20]

I use landmarks because I can never remember street names.

Wasn't the difference between men and women not landmarks vs. street names but visual memory vs. spatial memory? I mean, how are you using the landmarks? Do you say, "Go past the Target, you'll come to a gas station if you find a Tim Horton's you've gone too far, it's the one with the bright orange door" or "From the library you want to go up three blocks, hang a left and it'll be the third house on your right"?

 

[kevbo]

I use to drive taxi, so it's street names. It used to be landmarks, though.

 

[darcey]

My sister uses street names (& directional bits like north, east, south, & west). I use landmarks. Part of my problem is, I don't notice the street signs once I know where something is located so I forget the names. However, my sister does rather skew that generalization about female/gay VS male.

 

[LaloGS]

I have another directional hiccup thing.

If I'm a passenger in a car giving directions to the driver, and there's a turn coming up, I invariably give the wrong direction.

If we need to turn right, I'll say left, and vice versa. The BRAIN on the other hand is "stating" the correct direction, but what comes out of the mouth is the opposite.

I have to take a moment beFORE I open my mouth to say anything.

Dyslexia Piano man? I got that one too, the super intelligent syndrome.

 

[yeeeaaahhh]

When I'm getting directions I like to get street names. When I am giving directions I try to use street names, but if I can't remember I'll say "Turn left by the such and such resturant" or whatever.
When I'm downtown I know where everything is in reference to Nordstoms and 6th (I think that's the street). I get my hair cut across the street from the exit (of Nordstoms) that is perpendicular from 6th. Macy's is across from 6th, away from Norstroms. Pacific Place is diagonal. Etc...