UCL Social Data Institute on Mythryl: “"What we forget when looking at a map on a phone screen is how big…”

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"What we forget when looking at a map on a phone screen is how big physical maps are – you can lean over them, trace routes. They give you a god-like view on the world." James Cheshire, SODA Director and Professor of Cartography (@uclgeography.bsky.social) in @thespectator1828.bsky.social. #maps

spectator.comThe man trying to save Britain’s last great map libraryIn the heart of Bloomsbury, deep in the bowels of the UCL geography department, down corridors floored in institutional linoleum, sticky and scuffed by generations of students, is a room full of maps....

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