I'm pretty good with map and compass, but earlier this year we got a Magellan Meridan GPS, with their Toposend mapping software, and I am becoming spoiled. I can download topo maps, with trails, etc, on it, and just follow the little arrowhead, it always tells me where I am, where I have been, and what is up ahead. On the road, I can tell it to delete the topo lines, but add street names, gas stations, restaurants, you name it, you got it. Stuff that you can't find on one paper map. When we got it, we were messing around in the Mojave National Preserve of CA, and the GPS showed dirt roads and trails that were on none of the three different paper maps we had of the area.

If you look on ebay, you can get both the gps and the software for about half of the MSRP...