Before SatNav, GPS or TomTom there was............Paper!
Maps in some form have existed for thousands of years and the progression to digital forms of mapping is just the latest generation of them.
I love the older style paper map that you can spread out before you on the kitchen table or on your knees whilst on a windswept hillside! They are a thing of beauty that the modern electronic versions lack. At one stage in my collecting period, I had thousands of them of all sorts of places and ages. I still have some of them, especially the ones that go back to the late 1700s and 1800s!
This is obviously detail from an Ordnance Survey (OS) map of where I live - Newark-on-Trent!
Before SatNav, GPS or TomTom there was............Paper!
Maps in some form have existed for thousands of years and the progression to digital forms of mapping is just the latest generation of them.
I love the older style paper map that you can spread out before you on the kitchen table or on your knees whilst on a windswept hillside! They are a thing of beauty that the modern electronic versions lack. At one stage in my collecting period, I had thousands of them of all sorts of places and ages. I still have some of them, especially the ones that go back to the late 1700s and 1800s!
This is obviously detail from an Ordnance Survey (OS) map of where I live - Newark-on-Trent!