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\"BCSThe British Cartographic Society\u2019s 50th anniversary book, which came out in 2013, is now available as a free download<\/a> (68 MB PDF<\/a>). \u201cThis beautiful book, lavishly illustrated with over 130 maps, is presented in double-page map spreads for each year from 1963 to 2013, one map illustrating a UK event and the an overseas event for each of the fifty years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The British Cartographic Society\u2019s 50th anniversary book, which came out in 2013, is now available as a free download (68 MB PDF). \u201cThis beautiful book, lavishly illustrated with over 130 maps, is presented in double-page… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,35],"tags":[811,30,474],"class_list":["post-1789619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","category-history","tag-bcs","tag-books","tag-map-societies","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787347,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/the-ordnance-survey-releases-a-moon-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789619,"position":0},"title":"The Ordnance Survey Releases a Moon Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 May 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first crewed landing on the Moon, the Ordnance Survey has released a map of the Apollo 11 landing site. 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