mud map app: A Statement from Mud Maps®
You are currently visiting the site www.mudmaps.com which is owned by MudMaps Pty Limited, an Australian company which commenced trading in 1990, has won many tourism awards, trades all around the world and has been featured on many television programs. We also hold the rights to the "Mud Maps" Trade Mark.
We do not make or supply the mud map 3 app
We are in no way associated with the business that produces the "mud map' app sold on the Apple Store & Google Play Store. This business is not called Mud Maps or anything similar. They do however have a product called 'mud map' and 'mud map 3'.
We understand your frustration in trying to find and deal with this business.
For their own reasons they make themselves quite hard to deal with according to the many hundreds of people that have contacted us by mistake.
This business has never responsed to our attempts to contact them either. We can only suggest that you attempt to find them via the Apple Store & Google Play Store. Alternatively you could try to get their details from either Apple or Google.
We wish you the best, and if you are interested in travelling the outback parts of Australia or Africa with our tour company we would be most pleased to welcome you.
Mark Phillips
Managing Director
MudMaps Pty Limited
The term mud map is an old Australian bush saying. It dates back to the early years of European settlement when much of the continent was still unexplored and unchartered by white men.
To outline directions to each other, when outback travellers met up by chance they used to draw maps in the dirt or in the mud after it had rained. These in turn became known as mud maps.
In those days it was a lonely life droving and travelling around the bush and the chance to stop and chat for a while around a campfire with a friendly face was something to be savoured and enjoyed.
mud map : what it means
Often while sitting around a campfire at night fellow outback travellers would share stories, trade information and pass on the latest news. This news may have been the latest gold rush or possibly a recent flood and so the map drawn on the ground became the focal point for describing the event and where it was.
The term mud map has remained in the Australian language particularly with people from the bush. These days however the maps are usually hand drawn on paper although you may occasionally see someone squat down and actually draw a map in the mud.
MudMaps : travel with experience
While maps drawn in the mud have largely been replaced by printed maps and electronic copies, the local knowledge of the outback area which was so vital in days gone by must still be passed on by the experienced themselves.
One of our own maps resides in the maps collection of the National Library of Australia depicts digitally this cross over from mud to electronic