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A bearded ranger leans over a map wearing sunglasses, it is a bright sunny day.

A bearded man smiles at the camera with the National Parks and Wildlife sign behind him

A man with a long beard and hair sits at a desk examining a map on a desktop

"But when we're designing a paper-based map we need to get it as close to reality as we possibly can."
1663 Blaue map after treatment at the National Library of Australia.

"Maps were probably the first-ever written documents, existing for nearly as long as we have,"
he said.

An Apple iPhone with a map open sits on top of a corresponding paper map

"A typical Google map shows a base layer, and a number of other features it has put on top of it such as nearby cafes … this type of interaction is, of course, not possible on paper maps,"
Professor Winter said.

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