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Doug Stone, John Tully et al Maps - The Good, the Bad & the Alternatives
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<blockquote data-quote="grubstake" data-source="post: 445099" data-attributes="member: 4012"><p>As always, a great thread, mbasko.</p><p></p><p>Once upon a time, Doug Stone's original Outdoor Press maps of Central Victorian goldfields localities were all that we keen prospectors had to go by. We were very glad to have them too, in those dark days before GPS made it simple to work out where you actually are.</p><p></p><p>For those interested in the history of prospecting maps, here's something special from the archives. This is a section from one of John Tully's personal, hand-marked-up Outdoor Press maps from the early 1980's, before he decided to prepare his own series of Victorian goldfields maps the hard way: by going out on a little motorbike and driving along all of the roads and tracks to personally 'ground truth' each locality, then relating placenames and references from old newspapers and records to actual spots on his maps.</p><p></p><p>John added all of the pencil-shaded worked gullies and extensions below, while the hand-written track names are my later addition. The little red dots and red blobs with numbers beside them, are John's notes from his fieldwork. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />ickshovel: </p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4012/1539416658_tully1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grubstake, post: 445099, member: 4012"] As always, a great thread, mbasko. Once upon a time, Doug Stone's original Outdoor Press maps of Central Victorian goldfields localities were all that we keen prospectors had to go by. We were very glad to have them too, in those dark days before GPS made it simple to work out where you actually are. For those interested in the history of prospecting maps, here's something special from the archives. This is a section from one of John Tully's personal, hand-marked-up Outdoor Press maps from the early 1980's, before he decided to prepare his own series of Victorian goldfields maps the hard way: by going out on a little motorbike and driving along all of the roads and tracks to personally 'ground truth' each locality, then relating placenames and references from old newspapers and records to actual spots on his maps. John added all of the pencil-shaded worked gullies and extensions below, while the hand-written track names are my later addition. The little red dots and red blobs with numbers beside them, are John's notes from his fieldwork. :pickshovel: [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4012/1539416658_tully1.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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