I found that using the coast as a directional basis (looking at coast left is either east or north, right is south or west depending on where you spawn) that will help you move around the 4 main cities, then you can reference that to the road that leads to NWAF, just try and learn how to travel the bottom half of the map first, then move to the upper side of the map. I haven't been able to learn which city I'm in without a road sign, except electro. If people could post land markers in each city to be able to tell which one we're in. That would help all new players. (for instance, electro has the multiple train tracks spreading off, with the town hugging it really tight. I usually start all my movements after finding electro, because it's easiest to get everywhere. I started off using DayzDB and just followed roads on low pop servers, figuring out loot spawns, where is where, you kind of have to imagine you were in the game, use your phone as google maps type thing lmao.