 Long before Google existed, I was growing up as the son of an army colonel. And from as long as I can remember, I was the chief navigator on all our car trips using clumsy, hard-to-fold paper maps. And we took a whole lot of car trips, especially when we lived in Europe. I found it difficult enough to learn how to navigate in the US where the maps were in English. I was even more befuddled as a very young boy by maps in French, Dutch, or Italian. And the colonel was not amused when I lost my place on those maps.