I too used to be good at giving directions and drawing maps. I could read a map and a compass too. I did a lot of travelling when I was younger and those skills came in handy. When we moved to Costa Rica it drove me crazy, the directions you would get because people either walked or took the bus they had no idea about oneway streets. A lot of the roads and streets are curved and hilly, directions would say so many blocks North only the road didn't go north, it went east and west. Then Nicaragua became a real pain because all the directions are given in reference to the main two lakes. Good if you know where they are, hell if you don't.