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[i]Great sweeping statement there. No, maps aren't 'better' they just have advantages and disadvantages.[/i]
It's no more sweeping a statement than someone saying GPS is better. What it is, in fact, is an opinion. My opinion. And as regards the other part of your statement, in my opinion (again the crucial bit) maps have more advantages than disadvantages when compared with GPS. So therefore I'm quite entitled to say maps are better. Other folk obviously think differently. Fair enough.
And as regards the "Luddite" accusation that rather lazily, and tediously, crops up every time this topic gets debated, most of the folk I know that hillwalk or mountain bike do actually carry a GPS. However they very rarely use it. They prefer the old way as they figure it's still the best. We've mountain biked all over the Highlands of Scotland and have a few times tried out the GPS as a mapping tool. However we still go back to map and compass as it's quicker, more reliable, safer and more useful for finding new trails.
I do, as it happens, use a GPS when I'm on the road bike. However it's just a bike computer rather than a mapping tool. It's a Garmin Edge 500 and is a great wee bit of kit; I love it.
[i]The map and compass brigade are the same lot who will be leaning on their horns when their advice is taken by motorists in front of them who stop at roundabouts to get the map out.
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More likely we'll be the ones driving safely when the "I must have the latest technology at all costs" brigade are driving the wrong way up a one-way street because their sat-nav told them to go that way and they've long since lost the ability to think for themselves! 🙂