On 20 September 2010 13:54, Alex Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hilariously true. As far as I am aware there is no complete mapping, but
> will nosey around a bit and see.

The story I was told by my father (who ran academic research on the
island - including archaeological surveys), is that the Isle of Man
government decided they did not want to pay for the Ordinance Survey
to create accurate maps of the Island (if you try walking there you
will see what I mean immediately). This has had an impact on all sorts
of mapping related activities such as land registration. More recently
they were induced to buy a solution from a company that thought they
could infer the map using image processing software acting on aerial
photographs, with disastrous effects.

Or so I have been told. I'd like not to believe it, but it fits the facts.

-- 
Francis Davey

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