-------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: BBC Shop Talk - Digital Mapping Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:47:05 -0000 From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Of possible interest to other (English?) speakers over the pond. Francis Herbert [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Michael Shand [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 04 January 2006 1:12 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: BBC Shop Talk - Digital Mapping Dear List-mappers, Yesterday's (Tues 3rd Jan) BBC Radio 4 programme "Shop Talk" featured a 30 minute programme presented by Heather Payton on how maps have undergone something of a revolution since they entered the digital age. The Chair of the Society of Cartographers, Steve Chilton, was joined in the BBC studio by Ed Parsons of the Ordnance Survey and several other guests from regional studios. Hear the world wide web broadcast of the programme again online, the BBC website has an audio file that can be played back if anyone wishes to hear the broadcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/shoptalk/index.shtml See also some feedback/comments at: http://veryspatial.com/ http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/ http://www.allpointsblog.com/ Regards, Mike Shand ************************************ Mike Shand, M.App.Sci, FBCartS, Cartographer, Dept. of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. Hon. Secretary: Society of Cartographers http://www.soc.org.uk/ HOME PAGE & TANZANIA Links: http://web.geog.gla.ac.uk/~mshand ************************************ Mike Shand, M.App.Sci, FBCartS, Cartographer, Dept. of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. Hon. Secretary: Society of Cartographers http://www.soc.org.uk/ HOME PAGE & TANZANIA Links: http://web.ges.gla.ac.uk/~mshand ************************************ --