--- Begin Forwarded Message --- >Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 07:58:20 -0600 >From: Steven R Holloway <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Humor needed (fwd) >Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:29:29 +1000 >From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]> >To: Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Humor needed (fwd) > > >>I remember a story (it may have been from Lewis Carroll, the author of >>Alice in Wonderland) who wrote about a place that had a superb map of the >>countryside. Unlike ordinary maps, which usually are one inch=one mile >>(or some other scale), this one had a scale of 1:1 (that's right...one >>inch=one inch). However, they couldn't use the map very often, because >>the farmers complained that it blocked out the sun. >> >This was either Carroll, or Oscar wilde. I would like to know the exact >reference if anyone knows. It isn't in 'Alice' itself anyway. >If memory serves, it was a Brit and a German talking about which country >had the better maps. The Brit said they'd mapped the UK at an inch to a >mile, and the German said they'd done 4 inches to a mile. The Brit replied >they'd nearly finished 10 inches to the mile, and the german smiled, saying >they had a 1:1 map of all of germany. The Brit asked if they'd ever laid it >out, but the german said the farmers protested to much. >Something like that anyway. > >Brendan Whyte Brendan I believe the refernece is from The Little Pince. He made a 1:1 map of his little planet. There may be another reference but I seem to remember reading it there. I often use it in my classes! He was always making fun of geographers. Steven Holloway .......................... http://www.tomake.com Oikos Work Arts [log in to unmask] The Studio 406 728.9546 232 South 6th Street East Missoula, MT 59801 The University of Montana [log in to unmask] Geography 406 243.4302 The University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 --- End Forwarded Message ---