Nuala Reece
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Posted - 2005.03.21 13:34:00 -
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The ranting, I guess, comes from the sources it always does - bruised egos and the desire for someone to make everything easy for them. But here's some breaking news - the map doesn't make anything easier for anyone - it just helps to make people better informed so long as it's used with a few caveats.
The map is not the territory - no matter how good a job RF or anyone else makes of a map (and I was happy with RF's ones) it will never accurately reflect the current state of affairs anywhere in Eve. Anyone who sets out thinking that any map they have is 'accurate' is a fool. What maps do best is form a part of the sum of information that can be gained from many sources - other discussions and reports on this forum, propaganda from corp videos, conversation with local people in game, filters in the ingame map, and what your own eyes tell you as you move through space.
For this reason maps are fantastically useful resources, but best used in conjunction with other sources of information combined with (here's the kicker) seeing for yourself and making up your own goddamn mind 
For my part, I'd like to see maps back on a sticky. Don't need it myself because (more breaking news ) you can bookmark important pages on your own browser, but for new players it means there readily available.
I'd like to see one thread where anyone can post a map and have it listed at in the first post. Flames and trolling (including 'joke' maps) should be routinely, and quickly, deleted from any ongoing discussion because ... if you disagree with the way a map looks there are 2 simple ways to approach it - either make your own map depicting the galaxy the way you, or your alliance, sees it or raise your objections with the mapmakers
including reasoned arguments and/or evidenceto back up your claim that it should be changed.
More maps may be more confusing in some ways, but only when you want someone to tell you which one is right - which is really only asking for someone else to do your work for you. With a choice, pilots can look at many maps and decide for themsleves.
If nothing else, a discussion cleared of flames would pretty soon make it clear which mapmakers seem to be pushing their own agenda and which are trying to be as impartial as they can be. And a sticky is also at least one small way of recognising the work people put in on our behalf to amke the maps in the first place.
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