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All, The next NY Map Society meeting will be March 12th at 2:30 pm at the New York Public Library, 5th Avenue & 42nd Street. NOTE: This meeting will be in the South Court Celeste Bartos Education Center classrooms (adjacent to the stairs/elevator down to the auditorium). "Putting Tierra del Fuego on the Map" Popular legend has it that Ferdinand Magellan was the first voyager to pass through the strait that now bears his name. Yet maps pre-dating his voyage by years--and perhaps by centuries--strongly suggest that he was simply following the wake of others. In the years that followed Magellan's voyage, Tierra del Fuego followed Darwinian evolution, as each new map displayed a gradual improvement as each new visitor returned home with more details. Still, there was much work that needed to be done, and HMS Beagle's Captain Robert FitzRoy was the man to do it. At our March meeting, New York Map Society Vice President John Woram takes a look at maps of the area, from before Magellan to after FitzRoy, concluding with a demonstration of how modern technology allows today's visitor to record the latitude, longitude, altitude and compass bearing every time a photo is taken with a digital camera. Later on, the recorded data can be sent to Google Earth to show just where each photo was taken, and a map can be printed showing these points. Best, Heather Kinsinger, Secretary, NY Map Society _www.nymapsociety.org_ (http://www.nymapsociety.org)
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