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Infrastructure, Geography and Nature thread

Monoethnic Social Club said:
Hahaha no ofcourse not but, as an interesting side note, I often used to give my kids the old Melways when we are in a strange part of time and get them to "guide" me home .. reading map is a useful skill. Interting articel I read ages ago.

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An interesting titbit that you probably know.

Those Melways, Gregorys in Sydney, all had a deliberate error within their maps. Fake streets and other stuff.

That's how they used to catch people copying their maps.
 
Muz said:
An interesting titbit that you probably know.

Those Melways, Gregorys in Sydney, all had a deliberate error within their maps. Fake streets and other stuff.

That's how they used to catch people copying their maps.
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No I didn't thats surely an urban myth?
 
Does this count as geography? Found this quite interesting (you have to click the link to watch it):



Basically the dialect of Maltese spoken in Australia (Maltralian) not only borrows sounds and loan words from Australian English, but actually preserved many older terms not used in Malta today.
 
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