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Doug Stone, John Tully et al Maps - The Good, the Bad & the Alternatives
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 653735" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>Maybe there are different reasons for maps to exist.</p><p>1. As a navigation aid.</p><p>2. To provide information about what is there in a particular location.</p><p>Modern mapping tend to focus on the navigation issue and with GPS technology nobody would argue that the older mapping is as good as the latter.</p><p>In regards to 2 however, many of the older maps contain information that the more modern maps do not.</p><p>Here is an example which is an old map of the Dunolly goldfield. I do not feel that any modern maps contain the same amount of information that older maps may contain that is omitted by more modern navigating oriented maps. This one was compiled in 1915 as a result of physical work in the field.</p><p>As navigating aids no problem with using the more modern maps if you need to, but often if you want information you need to research older original stuff compiled by field operators..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 653735, member: 4728"] Maybe there are different reasons for maps to exist. 1. As a navigation aid. 2. To provide information about what is there in a particular location. Modern mapping tend to focus on the navigation issue and with GPS technology nobody would argue that the older mapping is as good as the latter. In regards to 2 however, many of the older maps contain information that the more modern maps do not. Here is an example which is an old map of the Dunolly goldfield. I do not feel that any modern maps contain the same amount of information that older maps may contain that is omitted by more modern navigating oriented maps. This one was compiled in 1915 as a result of physical work in the field. As navigating aids no problem with using the more modern maps if you need to, but often if you want information you need to research older original stuff compiled by field operators.. [/QUOTE]
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