Hi everyone
I have just joined this group. I am, in my spare time, a freelance cartographic editor. During the day I work as a landscape architect, but I was formerly employed as a cartographic editor, working on world atlases, by Philip's, De Agostini-Rand McNally and AND Cartographic Publishers. In 2000 I became freelance and have worked closely with the children's book publisher, Usborne, on their ever-growing series of wold atlases ever since. As a cartographer my specialism is world atlases, although I'll make maps of anywhere and on any subject!
I used to subscribe to IBRU's Boundary and Security Bulletin (BSB), and lament its discontinuation! Usborne recently had a few queries regarding Chinese territorial boundaries on land and sea, Palestine and Kashmir; so it was necessary to start dusting down my copies of BSB and digging out information I had collected over the years. It revealed that I need to become better informed again, and I also decided that a review of boundaries in the more serious of Usborne's atlases was well overdue.
So, I'm not so sure I'll be able to contribute very much, although I can offer a commercial map publisher's perspective, and perhaps also comment on how boundaries are used and understood generally.
Best wishes
Craig
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