Re: FW: London Times Article

And there's this black patch near a lake in California...

I can neither confirm or deny... 

No Comment. <grin>

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On 08 Mar 2001 11:47 GMT KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de writes:
>>Absender: devans@uneb.edu
>> ***
>> Maybe just because I was hired originally as a cartographer by
>> > DMAAC/DMA/NIMA I think there are some fun implications for 
>> > scenarios involving 'intentional errors' on the player's and 
>> > figures maps.  Anybody else seen some use for these in a scenario?
>
>> On the other hand, as I can see lots of 'life or death' situations 
>> possible with several of these changes, my naivete is shocked that 
>> cartographers would do such things. It's one thing to alter a song > 
>
>recording...
>
>Seems copyright issues are now being taken as seriously as warfare ;-)
>
>During the Cold War era, both sides regarded maps as classified 
>information. Published maps were missing militarily relevant 
>information. 
>
>The Soviets were especially paranoid about it. It was impossible to 
>get 
>a good street map of Moscow, and in larger scale maps, whole cities 
>and 
>roads might be off by several kilometers.
>
>In West Germany, airfields etc. might not only be missing from maps, 
>even in published aerial photographs, airfields might be replaced by 
>woods.
>
>All this in the era of satellite reconnaissance!
>
>Greetings
>Karl Heinz
>

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