[Rockhounds] Is map-reading a lost art?

[Tim Fisher]

I love maps and virtually all of mine are digital now. The only maps I have bought in a long time are the USFS forest travel maps. Those would be difficult to read on a phone when you're out in the woods and sometimes out of GPS range. Plus they show open and closed roads, and show where a road is a road not a series of boulders and mudholes. Sometimes they're even correct! I keep my old OR WA & ID DeLorme atlas books for nostalgia's sake but they're in the travel trailer because I do reference them from time to time. At least they're still being updated and published. I have a nice NUVI with decent maps in the truck for general navigation, sometimes I would be utterly lost without it.

Tim Fisher
nospam at orerockon.com

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Is map-reading a lost art? In an era of GPS, here's what map fans say 
we're losing

'Maps are symbols, and symbols are powerful,' says map enthusiast

Natalie Stechyson · CBC News · Posted: Jun 11, 2023

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/maps-cartography-skill-1.6871726

The Lost Art of Map Reading

Anna Soldenhoff, MediumCom, July 15, 2023

https://medium.com/@annasoldenhoff/the-lost-art-of-map-reading-4acac2de8cb7

Yours,


Paul H.
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