Originally Posted by SASless
Using a 1957 Map in 1974 in West Africa with only a Mag Compass and a Watch in really dusty vis could provide some comic relief.....after the first dozen beers.
We take maps for granted today.
You were lucky if you had any detail on an African map in the 50s as much remained to be surveyed. Remember many topos, big squares of beige with perhaps a hopeful road across and nothing else.
Or maps of Oman and the Empty Quarter, actually grey mosaic photos with roads picked out in orange - made by Royal Engineers.