Re: [Paddlewise] Maps versus Charts

As USUAL, you are way ahead of us. Didn't you have the first Mariner Coaster 
like kayak design too?

Thanks for the link. With our busy lives these days, annotated maps are here 
to stay. Sex is a spectator sport now on the internet now. That chart-like, 
guide-book resources are so readily available to modern kayakers taking away 
some of the mystery is only in keeping with post modern adventure.

If anyone wants a picture of me with my most used laminated chart, just 
email me for a jpeg.

Doug L


>I have two free maps that I created before trips that are available  free 
>on the web:
>
> 1. Cape Scott and North Vancouver
>
> 2. Coast of Nootka Island
>
> http://rrlivingston.com/Site/Kayaking.html
>
>
>
>
> Now before I go on a kayak trip I get data on where I am going and  make a 
> map. The very act of making the map teaches me about the coast  that I 
> will be traveling.
>  I can print it at any size and in any format. I will often cut 
> (digitally) various pieces of the map and compose them on a piece of 
> paper for the actual trip so I can have just one small piece of paper  on 
> deck for the various day paddles
>
> I am now working on the Washington Coast as we will be doing Cape 
> Flattery to Destruction Island this summer. Trying to combine data  from 
> Google maps, US Charts, a series of  coast photographs that are  available 
> on line and Geodesic Survey. Interesting how they so not all  match in the 
> details that concern me most -- where can I land at what  tides under what 
> conditions. The US Charts for the ocean coast are not  that helpful for 
> small boats.
>
> I really do not like the trend of guidebooks / detailed annotated maps 
> since I enjoyed the sense of adventure in not having them but those  days 
> are not coming back
>
> I am a big fan of the waterproof paper and printing the maps rather  than 
> the lamination which tends to delaminate.
>
>
>
>
> On May 11, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Doug Lloyd wrote:
>
>> If I ever had got a web site up and running, I'd have had free  coastline 
>> maps available for print that could be laminated
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