There is also an item in today's Daily Mail (p.26) by one Robert Hardman, which says, inter alia, that paper map sales have dropped from 2.9M 10 yrs ago to 1.9M now. This looks like a Don't-Let-The-Official-Press_release-Get-Away-With-It contribution.
Perhaps we need the nation's favorite fortnightly satirical magazine to investigate who is really behind all this...
Richard Oliver
of the Battersea Dogs Home for Paper Maps...
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Subject: More media notice(s) on OS paper maps decline
The Independent of today (yes – 1st April . . .) has another piece (semi-nostalgic) by Rosie Millard re OS (et al.)’s paper maps vs sat-nav. As I’m too lazy to search out its url, try ‘Life’ section, article ‘Mapped out’; hard copy, p. 35, with 1 b&w ill. of what a real paper map being used looks like – this will become even more archivally ‘quaint’ soon. I must suppose that someone is collecting and documenting such media notices as a historical perspective re attitudes/ ‘propaganda’ to technological/economic changes? Alex Kent and his students . . .?
Francis Herbert (still collecting, researching, and writing on [not always literally] ‘quaint’ paper maps before they become another victim of ‘Lost Knowledge’)
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