These two messages are from Mark Johnson.------------Johnnie
 
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    : "Mark Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
       : RE: map martyrs
 
Along the lines of Freedom/Liberty, you might consider the mysterious case
of the "moving" cities on Soviet maps.  I recall seeing, a few years back,
at least two articles on the subject of intentional falsification of
publicly-available maps.  Seems that one was a journal article and another
was in a major newspaper (New York Times?).
 
Another idea (this really stretches the subject) is the survival maps
carried by military aviators.  During WWII and into early Vietnam era they
carried silk maps (usually 1:250K and 1:1mil scale).  More recently, the
military uses specially-treated paper survival maps that can double as
ponchos, shelters, litters, etc.  The maps are chock-full of information
to help the user reach friendly lines a..n..d...freedom-slash-liberty :)
 
Oh well, I tried.
 
Sorry, I'll keep the neurons firing on the martyr question.
 
Mark
 
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      "Mark Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
         RE: map martyrs (2)
 
Just as I sent that last note, my half-serious bit on survival maps caused a
major memory surge.  Call the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio!!  They have
a major exhibit on the WWII POWs, including the most amazing things made out
of tin cans, red cross boxes, bits of metal, etc.  I bet some enterprising
prisoner made, or had hidden away, a MAP!
 
Other thoughts:  the revolutionary war; the civil war (what was the name of
Stonewall Jackson's cartographer?  Hitchkoss?); the Soviet gulags...
 
Mark