I just spent two years driving from Alaska to Argentina, with no GPS and very basic paper maps. I don't think these tips are useful at all to someone constantly on the move in new places. I'm typically excellent with directions and only got "completely lost" a dozen times or so. (For some reason, Bolivia had me convinced North was South...)
Those six methods assume a lot that doesn't work everywhere.
1. Tons of places have no satellite dishes.
2. Good idea, but you need to find a town to find a church...
3. Surely you need to be a local to know about weather patterns.
4. Assuming people have jobs, are going to work, and there is some kind of mass transit that stops at some kind of known location regularly.
5. You have to already know if you're North or South of the city..
6. What? again, you would have to know which way is North/South before you look at the clouds.
1. Tons of places have no satellite dishes.
2. Good idea, but you need to find a town to find a church...
3. Surely you need to be a local to know about weather patterns.
4. Assuming people have jobs, are going to work, and there is some kind of mass transit that stops at some kind of known location regularly.
5. You have to already know if you're North or South of the city..
6. What? again, you would have to know which way is North/South before you look at the clouds.