so there i was #rckq2evm1rme

Thursday evening was the first ‘official’ Auckland Map Meetup. A group of about 14 attended, a mix of cartographers, GIS professionals, open street mappers, academics and me.

I took along a 1940 AA Itinerary map, which I found in my grandmother’s collection of maps, which I now curate. She was a map magpie which explains why she kept it despite the three separate warnings about not using the map twice.

“Map routes are definitely OUT OF DATE 3 months after issue”

I’ve placed some ropey scans of it up on Flickr.

Cover
With two disclaimers.

Inside Cover
..another disclaimer.

Example Map
A route map and description in the AA abrev. speak.

I learnt more about how to contribute to Open Street Map from Robin Paulson and have since attempted to add some detail around Grey Lynn, notably adding in footpaths from Cox’s Bay out and around to Grey Lynn Park.

I would love to get a GSP logger and capture some walks out west for this project. Put Google to shame with their paper road view of around Bethells.