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Mankind has lost the art of map reading, says the man who INVENTED GPS...
Daily Mail ^ | 13 February 2019 | Victoria Bell

Posted on 02/13/2019 8:57:19 PM PST by Rebelbase

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To: EinNYC

There are several videos on YouTube that show modern day teens trying to use a rotary phone.

It’s hilarious!


61 posted on 02/14/2019 12:11:42 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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To: SFConservative

“The old ones (pre ~1950) show each individual building and feature.”

I can’t recall if it was a TV show or an aquaintance, but they would use those old maps to identify where the old outhouse was on a property.

Then ask the current owner if they could dig around and then share whatever decent finds they found.

On one project I was using fancy metal detection gear to locate possible buried debris, drums, etc. prior to development. One of the small spots I located they dug up. No hazardous waste - but an old outhouse with Revolutionary War era buttons, bottles, etc. (Of course I never saw any of it!).


62 posted on 02/14/2019 12:14:34 AM PST by 21twelve (!)
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To: Richard from IL
For those who want to look it up, the correct link is www.gpsdeclassified.com

Looks like a fascinating book!

63 posted on 02/14/2019 12:18:53 AM PST by SFConservative
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To: Richard from IL
I met your father many years ago, maybe around 1987 or so.

Fascinating fellow. I asked him a lot of questions about the GPS after he mentions what he had done when I asked him what he had done before retiring.

I spend a lot of tie in the boonies, in our Unimogs, on our Rokon Trailbreaker and Skidoo Expedition.

I use all available sources of information about where I am going.

Books, GPS, Topo maps,both modern and old, any other paper maps or online maps I can find.

The more info the better.

On the trail I use GPS and folding maps.

If in the Unimog(s), laptop computer with DeLorme GPS receiver and topo maps, sometimes satellite images.

Ham Radio APRS at times too.

64 posted on 02/14/2019 12:41:36 AM PST by Mogger
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To: Rebelbase
I still use maps and rarely GPS.

When I worked in Saudi Arabia I navigated with a compass and Zeiss analog prism range finder plotted to UTM drawings.

You never lose those skills.
65 posted on 02/14/2019 12:48:45 AM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

This is going to be a fun thread.
I also love maps and always sail with paper charts.
It is astonishing to me how clueless so many sailors are regarding anything that was commonplace knowledge...
I have an acquaintance who looked only at his GPS plotter as he ran a big trawler up the Delaware not long ago...
As if the plotter and AIS were going to tell him about the actual world around him, too.
I sat beside him and looked at his tiny pupils tracking the screen...
No lookout...
Spooky.


66 posted on 02/14/2019 2:07:21 AM PST by golux
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To: KarlInOhio
What is still the most dangerous weapon in the US Army inventory?

A Second Lieutenant with a map!

I still have the map of my battalion's area of operations in Germany. I assembled it when I was the Battalion S-4, to illustrate the logistical challenges of providing short range air defense to Bitburg, Hahn, and Spangdahlem air bases.

6/56 ADA, motto "Night Hides Not".

67 posted on 02/14/2019 2:18:03 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Don’t you have to know how to interpret a map in order to understand where you are according to the GPS designation?

Following highlighted instructions on a screen for a turn or exit coming up in a few minutes is entirely different than planning a trip to an unfamiliar city, selecting major highways, exits, and the final few turns in an unfamiliar location.

Which is entirely different than following a map and compass to sail between ports or fly between airports.

68 posted on 02/14/2019 2:20:53 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Google maps with satellite and street view is awesome. I have a box of street maps going back to the 1930’s. Some need updating.


69 posted on 02/14/2019 2:22:56 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: Rebelbase

“Can’t read maps”, Atlas shrugged.


70 posted on 02/14/2019 2:45:12 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: cpdiii
I presume you use Foreflight (or the equivalent)... not sure if sectionals are even printed anymore. My map backup is using Foreflight, only instead of an ipad, on my iphone.


71 posted on 02/14/2019 3:05:38 AM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: Rebelbase

There’s several good resources available online where you can print out topo maps of your desired area.


72 posted on 02/14/2019 3:19:55 AM PST by voicereason (The RNC is like the "One-night stand" you wish you could forget.)
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To: Rebelbase

One of my first jobs was in the Mapping Department of a city in pre-CAD days. I was “just a secretary”, but did a lot of the technical work to help out, and it was so interesting. Mylar. Rapidograph pens. I love maps.


73 posted on 02/14/2019 3:33:18 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: Rebelbase
Do a lot of Historical work. Still keep the NYS quads in my car for traveling around the state. I also keep my very old Garmin 45 on the dash and log important points.

My 55 year old son just got back from Italy. He made a gorgeous map of his trip with the plane flying in...his stops....and his plane leaving. When my daughter saw the map, she wanted a copy, too. We're a whole family of map lovers.

74 posted on 02/14/2019 3:35:37 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: ExSoldier

One of my now deceased buddies was stationed on the Potomac during WWII. He said...you wouldn’t believe how fast we topo’d the Capitol and all the surrounds.


75 posted on 02/14/2019 3:38:17 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: cpdiii
The really good ones were to big for a shirt pocket.

Mine was the big one. It had a really nice leather pouch and it was my Dad's until he gave it to me. I was the only one of his four children to take the hard math and science classes so I got his slide rule.

76 posted on 02/14/2019 3:47:22 AM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: BunnySlippers

My grandchildren can’t imagine “No TV”....until I was 8.


77 posted on 02/14/2019 3:48:39 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: voicereason

I use Topoquest.


78 posted on 02/14/2019 3:49:49 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Rebelbase

Some truth to this.

I had to unfamilar lands cross town yesterday. Pulled out the old sextent but forgot how to use it.

Whoa


79 posted on 02/14/2019 3:58:18 AM PST by School of Rational Thought
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To: Sacajaweau

I got rid of mine about 15 years ago. I don’t even miss it.

I thought I would miss it. I’m shocked to find out I do not.


80 posted on 02/14/2019 3:59:34 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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