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GOOD maps are necessary for the development of a country, for such purposes as defining property boundaries, limits of mining and other concessions, and so on, as well as for such engineering purposes as railway, road, and canal schemes, hydro-electric schemes, water-supply, irrigation, etc. The importance of good charts, as well as of trustworthy information as to tides and currents, scarcely needs emphasising. An incorrect or out-of-date chart will cause losses due to delays to shipping, even if it does not lead to more direct loss. Anything that will assist in the production of up-to-date and accurate charts is of great and direct benefit to the shipping industry, and through it to the nation. Even when such work has once been completed there is no finality, as both maps and charts require periodical revision at more or less frequent intervals, according to circumstances.
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GRIFFITHS, E., HENRICI, M. Proposed British Institute for Geodetic Training and Research1. Nature 106, 261–262 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106261a0
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