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Japan, for instance, numbers blocks and leaves the empty space between them nameless.


I walked around Tokyo a bit last year and without my phone + Wifi I would have been horribly lost. There are no street signs anywhere.


I can get around Tokyo for the most part at a gross level--as in I can find parks, railroad stations, and the like. But I think I spent an hour the last time I was there searching for my company's office. Guidebook authors should start thinking about including GPS coordinates although increasingly, given a network connection, it's a moot point given Google Maps.


Does anyone know what the market leader for GPS (for native and non-native users) in Japan is?




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