Saturday, November 6, 2010

fabMAPs

Mapmakers Rand McNally are offering a new line of fabMAPs - waterproof, wrinkle-proof maps made of microfiber cloth.  You can even use them to clean your sunglasses.

Rand McNally fabMAP - GearJunkie

Reminds me of the silk escape and evasion maps that U.S. paratroopers and airmen carried over Europe during World War II.

A silk escape map of the Milan area issued to Major Oliver Churchill.
MrArmstrong2 / Wikimedia Commons

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