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3. Motoring Maps

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In his exploration of modern cartography, Mike Parker recalls a bygone age of elegant motoring maps. From 2010.

Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern cartography.

The ultimate in cheap and ubiquitous mapping, there's scarcely a vehicle in the land that doesn't contain a dog-eared road atlas.

Road maps and their digital descendent, the sat nav, may guide us efficiently around our nation's highways but they don't tell us much else about the landscape we're speeding through.

Mike recalls a bygone age of elegant motoring maps and considers how modern road mapping and its unrelenting emphasis on our motorways and trunk roads has changed our picture of Britain.

Producer: Jeremy Grange

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.

15 minutes

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