Google Maps are great apps - particularly when you can do mashups.
But not all mashups are digitally generated ...
The Significant Other - an IT geek aka PMO Manager was doing some knowledge sharing with other IT geeks ahead of the NSW Labour Day long weekend .... a new bigger fishing boat recently obtained .. time to try out in NSW Shoalhaven ...
Google provided the maps ....
however for successful fishing it needs more ...
The Significant Other had done numerous fishing trips in the NSW Shoalhaven with work colleagues ... they'd shared tips, techniques of where to fish for what and how to do it ... there was the time he'd returned with a Trevally so enormous it would only fit into our oven diagonally and slightly flipped at the end ... we ate off that fish for a week .. other times the main fishing enthusiasts would toddle off to the local RSL on the Friday night and get the latest tips from those in the know ... of what was biting where ...
So now the Significant Other had a bit of a think of where he'd been shown to fish by his fishing guru's for which fish ... then manually annotated a print out of the Google Map to show his work mate where to fish for those Fish species at what time of day .. etc etc
Maybe someday it will be digitised .. ?
Knowledge sharing is not just the IT technology ... it's what sits in folks' heads and what they are willing to share ... and may be the Significant Other's Fishing Tinny (Boat) might even get a dusting off and into the water once more ....
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