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Re: Modern celestial navigation: when and why?
From: John Brown
Date: 2015 Mar 6, 01:23 -0800
From: John Brown
Date: 2015 Mar 6, 01:23 -0800
Bob Goethe said:
" (yes...I know the British are supposed to have a reputation as a seafaring people,
but when it comes to good charts, you are vastly better off in American or Canadian
waters, where the governments take their commitment to safe navigation much more
seriously; the British seem to think that if they know where the Greenwich meridian is,
they have done their whole duty to the world)"
Interesting contribution, particularly your take on where contemporary British cartographic duties lie.
Welcome to Navlist Bob, perhaps you could expand on this a little.
Regards
John
