Re: New Plymouth New Zealand 2 Big map
Donald Galt
Saturday, October 26, 2002 7:38 PM
On 26 Oct 2002 at 12:32, graeme bennett wrote:
It pales next to the youthful defacement I visited some of my maps. Fits of
fancy, those, not carefully-drawn enhancements like this.
Those born into the xerographic era probably can't conceive of such vandalism.
But:
1) The maps were new, not antiques. And could always be replaced (provided one
could somehow pull the funds together). The idea that we might be obliterating
something that would disappear in future editions was lost on the adolescent
mind.
2) There was no alternative, save the laborious and unsatisfactory tracing
paper method.
So, take pity on our foolishness.
Don
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When a teenager, I inked in all the tram lines on this map which has now well and truly reached it's "use by date"
It pales next to the youthful defacement I visited some of my maps. Fits of
fancy, those, not carefully-drawn enhancements like this.
Those born into the xerographic era probably can't conceive of such vandalism.
But:
1) The maps were new, not antiques. And could always be replaced (provided one
could somehow pull the funds together). The idea that we might be obliterating
something that would disappear in future editions was lost on the adolescent
mind.
2) There was no alternative, save the laborious and unsatisfactory tracing
paper method.
So, take pity on our foolishness.
Don
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