“Some for one purpose and some for another liketh, loveth, getteth, and useth Mappes, Chartes, & Geographicall Globes.”The mystical Dr Dee would, perhaps, have understood the passion stirred by Geosciences Australia’s recent decision to stop producing or selling paper versions of its topographic maps in December, citing dwindling demand.
How are people supposed to navigate on mountains? Google maps don't even show the mountains!
Ortelius and Plans of Paris are both currently on show durhamcathedral as part of the ‘Mapping the World’ exhibition in Open Treasure along side other examples of cartography from the Cathedral’s collection -
Great shame.😩
Such a pity no one thought to make a map for human behaviour. It seems all religious texts have failed.
I, too, mourn the decline of a reason to murder trees.
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We can't lose paper maps. There's waaaaaaaay too many areas that don't have wifi. How would people in the forest or other rural areas find their way. People without internet are still people, apparently they just don't matter
RIP the art of folding paper maps without bending a fold backwards
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