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This was the title of presentation given by Mary Spence, the outgoing president of the British Cartographic Society, at the Institute for Archaeologists annual conference last week. The presentation was given in the same session in which I was presenting, revolving around new technologies, particularly mobile spatial technologies, in archaeology. I was looking forward to the talk by Mary Spence as I had previously heard her on the radio talking about issues relating to making maps in today’s techno-centric world; she was, at that time, pushing for improvements in the quality of maps and the media had picked up on her criticisms of the kinds of maps based on eg Google Maps and Yahoo Maps which are often cartographically quite poor. Continue reading →