Comment by rangibaby
9 years ago
> spy into any local gas station to buy an accurate, well drawn, and easy to read road map?
How do you know that it is accurate?
9 years ago
> spy into any local gas station to buy an accurate, well drawn, and easy to read road map?
How do you know that it is accurate?
Good point: the gas station road map probably has trap streets on it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
If we couldn't catch the spies for spying, at least we could catch them for copyright violation.
At least it will be accurate where normal people usually drive--otherwise those normal people would complain.
Before GPS, it was mostly the topology that mattered to motorists, but the military probably wanted accurate coordinates on everything.
True! Of course topology includes getting the petrol station on the right side of the road.
I even heard of some maps with a 'sliding scale' that eg has the city centre larger. You can't even do that on a flat piece of paper without serious distortions in your coordinates.