Articles Tagged with maps

Charted waters

More than depths

A nautical chart contains an enormous amount of information, if you can read it.

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Notice to Mariners

Software updates

A system of correction and new information long predates digital computers.

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Breadcrumbs

Not even suggestions

Our tutor’s activities sometimes depart from the syllabus.

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Talk about the weather

Altostratus and a falling barometer

Why would you do your own weather forecasting?

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Alphabetical order

An historical mistake

We highlight an instance in which not knowing one’s history led to mistakes in astrophysics.

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Make a map

Charts, surveys and catalogs

We notice the importance of what and where.

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Archives and old software

Looking again

We find ourselves agreeing with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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Celestial navigation

Knowing where you are

You can get turn-by-turn directions.  What more do you need?

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Maps and apps

In principle and in practice

Another way we may be inadvertently changing how we see the world.

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