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regulations concerning them. In this
connection, it's interesting to point
out that quite a number Of national
and State parks are equipping their
tourist camps with such conveniences.
So that within the very near future.
folks travelling with these motorists
houses will be well accommodated.
r. w. Cullen, as We mentioned
earlier, chief of the A. A. A. carto-
graph department, is perhaps Ameri-
cas- most capable designer of road
maps. Like Douglas, he's the very
soul of courtesy. Cullen has been with
the organization since 1928. Prior
to his present afiliation he served as
chief draughtsman of the Department
of Agriculture and later worked with
the Bureau of Public Roads.
Certainly he's one of the busiest
chaps in town. His section prepares
virtually all the maps used by the
organization for its 700 affiliated motor
clubs. In gathering the rough notes
needed for the maps, six road cars
are utilized by the A. A. A. Ordinarily
there are six men on the road, known
as "pathfinders," working out of ma
tional headquarters here. The larger
cities, like New York, Chicago, De-
troit and st. Louis, maintain their
own road cars and make a regular
practice Of turning in to Cullen's divi-
sion copious sheets of road notes,
sketching major matters that later
are sketched into the maps.
ON HAND today in Cullen's oface
are no less than 1,o57 strip maps,
$50 city map drawings, IS State and
regional maps, notably those OF the
metropolitan areas, besides innumer-
able special maps.
All maps were designed for one pur-
pose only, to help the average motor
list. Which brings to mind Cullen's
personal philosophy of maps:
"The average driver Is far too mucn
inclined to think of a map as a sort OF
poster that you simply look at and
read. AS a matter of fact, you should
first of all look at the legend and then
at the map-in order to interpret 1t
properly you must discover exactly
what the various dots and hieroglyph-
les mean.
THE sheer perfection of the modern
day road map is Of tremendous help
in making the American people map
minded. More and more, today, folks
are referring to aliases and geogra-
phies. So that virtually every time
they read a story or article concerning
section of the globe with which
they're unfamiliar. they are forming
the habit of studying maps with
painstaking care.
incidentally, today's tendency is
to make the road map as clear and
sharp as possible, and to stress only
the essential features. This Is tn
marked contrast to yesterday, when
the typical road map used to be ultra
fancy in border and design. In fact,
there were so many high-falutin' doo-
dads on most of them that it was diff
ficult, indeed, for the average man to
interpret them quickly and conven-
iently."
David F. Jameson, chief draughts-
man of the cartograph section and
Cullen's right-hand man. has lot
Of interesting things to say about his
favorite subject. Jameson, by the
way, has been working with his boss
in the A. A. A. ever since 1924. Even
prior to this time he was afiiliated
with Jamieson-in the Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics.
Certainly the nine draughtsmen
working under Jameson have plenty
to do. During the last touring season
they completed rs new strip maps
$50 miscellaneous maps. besides 40
new city maps delineating the main
points Of interest. As for the A. A. A.
pathfinders, they covered about 20o.-
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