Dear Ken,
Amazing Coincidence!
There's a rather simple map of this type featured as a
cartographic curiosity in the the next issue of
Cartographiti (currently with the printers, honest gov'), a
Londoner's view of the UK.
One of the more famous of this type of 'map' was a cover of
The New Yorker from 29 March 1976. This was by the
cartoonist Paul Steinberg and depicts the world as seen
from the New Yorker offices on 9th Avenue.
The map to be reproduced in Cartographiti was used in a
newspaper advertisement for Doncaster in the early
seventies and was sent to me by Richard Oliver.
Can anyone site early examples?
Best wishes
Tinho
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Antonio da Cruz (Tinho) [log in to unmask]
Map Curator, Department of Geography, Roxby Building
University of Liverpool, LIVERPOOL L69 7ZT
Telephone: 0151 794 2844 Fax: 0151 794 2866
See the British Archaeological Association web page
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/baa
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