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Some Obsolete Mapmaking Processes

Published on 8 November 2019 by Jonathan Crowe

Cartographic services firm Lovell Johns posted this on their blog last April: 5 production processes in map making that are no longer in use. Includes such diverse elements as scribing, waxed type and rotring pens. Darkrooms! [Kenneth Field]

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