Strings maps were designed many years ago by rallymasters elsewhere in world. In North America they started appearing on navigational and map rallies in the early 1960’s. Many of the popular map and navigational events held in Canada and Western New York during the 1965 through 1980 used a short section of string map. They were often used in conjunction with topographic maps, and sometimes execution of the correct route demands that you only use roads that are shown on the topographic map, as opposed to using every road that you actually encounter when driving on the “real” roads. Those sections were usually trapped and failsafed so that only the sharp crews were able to zero the controls by taking the correct route. They were quite interesting and popular when done by a skilled rallymaster.

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StringMap.pdf

[Rally String Maps]

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