“I had the best clients in the world because they all left happy because they found what they wanted.”
One client, she said, is Yoko Ono, who bought maps worth thousands of dollars for her exhibition “War Is Over” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2013.
She acknowledges that GPS is useful for those who don’t care how they get where they are going.
“Eighty per cent of the population are travelers from destinations A to B only, have no spatial awareness and never go off the beaten path. But 20 per cent of us are not, we need to know the direction and we want to know we can go home again. No Anyone can use the map.”
Fragment of a topographic map of the Blue Mountains.attributed to him:Fairfax
Another client is Will Pringle who is the cartographer for Australian Geographic A magazine that uses maps to illustrate articles. Dick Smith, owner of the magazine, in his autobiography my adventurous life He says of Pringle: “I think the success of Australian Geographic, The travel books and many other products are credited to the efforts of Will and our cartographic department.”
Pringle said Announces That over the past five years, most map stores across Australia have closed. “A lot of times I’ll need some mystery maps as research I know they’ll get. I’ve been keeping track of things I might need.
“If you want something a little more graphic that you can take with you into the field, you really need a paper map.”
There are hopes that the Map Center will continue to operate online.
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Originally published at Melbourne News Vine
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