Thursday night's Public Lecture at the GA Conference 2011 was by Mike Parker: "self-obsessed" (rather than self-confessed) map addict (to quote his introduction on Radio 4 on one occasion...)
He talked about his book, and his love of maps, taking in the classic "Map that Came to Life" (see image at the bottom of this post...), the importance of maps historically, the changes that have taken place in mapping, the wonders of OS maps and the need to ignore the sat-nav and use proper maps. Some nice images, mostly from his book "Map Addict".
Image by Bryan Ledgard
Copyright: Geographical Association
I feel partly responsible for Mike being there, having got in touch with him when the book came out. He kindly wrote an article on his favourite and least favourite maps for GA magazine.
Vanessa Lawrence of the Ordnance Survey was on hand to listen to the lecture but also to pick up the GA's GOLD AWARD for the Digimap service.
From there it was on to the GA Wine Tasting event where I enjoyed working through a total of 8 wines, with GA colleagues and guidance from the folks at Guildford Wines.
The reds were the best.
Since coming back, I have re-read some bits of Mike's book for a few forthcoming sessions which have a "mappy" focus...
Mike's new book "The Wild Rover" is now out in hardback...
He talked about his book, and his love of maps, taking in the classic "Map that Came to Life" (see image at the bottom of this post...), the importance of maps historically, the changes that have taken place in mapping, the wonders of OS maps and the need to ignore the sat-nav and use proper maps. Some nice images, mostly from his book "Map Addict".
Image by Bryan Ledgard
Copyright: Geographical Association
I feel partly responsible for Mike being there, having got in touch with him when the book came out. He kindly wrote an article on his favourite and least favourite maps for GA magazine.
Vanessa Lawrence of the Ordnance Survey was on hand to listen to the lecture but also to pick up the GA's GOLD AWARD for the Digimap service.
From there it was on to the GA Wine Tasting event where I enjoyed working through a total of 8 wines, with GA colleagues and guidance from the folks at Guildford Wines.
The reds were the best.
Since coming back, I have re-read some bits of Mike's book for a few forthcoming sessions which have a "mappy" focus...
Mike's new book "The Wild Rover" is now out in hardback...
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