Mapless

English

From map + the suffix -less (“without”).

mapless (comparative more mapless, superlative most mapless)

Without a map or maps.
- May 4, 2024 — Mat Gallagher, I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets – it's mind-blowing, T3:
  According to Mercedes, this is a mapless system, instead using the data from the car's cameras and sensors to plot the road, making this easily scalable to any location.
Unmapped.
- 1955 — John Stewart Collis, The Moving Waters, p. 86:
  It had seemed that the earth now offered nothing further to explorers; that the virgin forest, the untrodden desert, the mapless mountain, the unjourneyed sea were all things of the past...

Lacking cartographic guidance; proceeding without reference to a physical or digital map.
- They set off mapless into the backcountry, trusting only the river’s course.
(figurative) Lacking direction, structure, or a clear plan; unguided.
- His early career felt mapless, shaped more by curiosity than by design.