Unfortunately circling doesn't always provide anything valuable. Extensive green fields, minor roads and villages aren't much help.
It does, and even minor features in landscape will give you sufficient feel where you are, but that needs training and the capability for something a friend called "pattern recognition". Last is a fading skill, deriving a feel for position on the basis of at first sight insufficient data - thats one increasingly killed by the GPS-brain-extension (had a weekend with some young boyscouts and their orientation skills in unknown terrain are decreased to a shocking minimum - guess they won't find from home to kindergarden without GPS ...).