Draft report of Committee I: geodesy and hydrography

Abstract

During the discussion the Committee noted 'the importance of geodetic control as the basis for accurate mapping and decided to recommend that any national cartographic establishment to be set up in Africa should include a geodetic division. The Committee also noted that the great triangulation chain along the 30th meridian east of Greenwich extending from the extreme south, to the extreme north of Africa, had been completed and adjusted, and noted further that several other links of geodetic chains had not yet been connected.