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I haven't been in all medinas of Morocco, but never had a problem with GPS there, have you actually tried to use it? :) I think the only place where I really had a problem were Caruggi of Genoa.

One tip to have a better location awareness with electronic map is to enable trip recording, if you see your previous way you can sort of continue walking "inertially".

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It was more like swimming in deep waters - sometimes you get to an area with a big enough opening that you get satellite lock in, get your bearings and can once again “dive”. But not using gps at all was a lot more fun though

I did try using Google Maps on my phone in Marrakesh a few years back and it failed completely and left me with an astounding data roaming charge.

Easier to pay a local to walk you back to your hotel if you get completely lost!

Nowadays Google Maps lets you download an area ahead of time, and then use it offline.

Still doesn't help since Marrakech medina has practically no streets drawn in on GMaps / OSM and you're not getting a GPS lock worth a damn. Your phone will just put you somewhere a few 10m off which can easily be another snaky street.

Maps are awesome there.

(This is experience from this year.)

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