The future of maps

August 2013

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Demand for paper maps remains high despite the rise of digital mapping. Photo: File
Trampers can often be found drooling over maps as they search for the next big trip, but are paper maps becoming a thing of the past? Three months after the February 22 Christchurch earthquake in 2011, Madeleine Rayner could be found silently weeping over maps. As she walked around the devastated premises of what was […]
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