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September 2017

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Geoff Aitken with one of his beautifully designed maps. Photo: Rebecca Hayter
Rebecca Hayter meets a map maker who creates visually-stunning topo maps specifically for trampers During his 40 years as a cartographer with LINZ, Geoff Aitken put his mark on a map many times – but never his boot print. He had always wanted to create maps specifically for trampers but his work for the government […]
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