Ditch the web

Is the internet ignoring the important details in life?

Internet mapping is wiping the rich geography and history of Britain off the map, Britain’s most senior cartographer warned yesterday.

Churches, cathedrals, stately homes, battlefields, ancient woodlands, rivers, eccentric landmarks and many more features which make up the tapestry of the British landscape are not being represented in online maps, which focus on merely providing driving directions, said Mary Spence, President of the British Cartographical Society.

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