Ted Florence is ready for his family trip to Botswana. He has looked up his hotel on Google Maps and downloaded a digital map of the country to his phone. He has also packed a large paper map.

He has also packed a large paper map. “I travel all over the world,” says Florence, the president of the international board of the International Map Industry Association and Avenza Maps, a ...

In this rapidly evolving digital world, paper maps add a sense of permanence. Roads and streets change for sure, and no printed map can typically keep up with that pace of change.

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Before satellite imagery and GPS, paper maps helped us navigate the world. Perhaps, not surprisingly many contained errors. What might surprise you is that some of those errors were intentional.

A 1602 world map created by the Italian-born Jesuit priest Matteo ... the delicate cartographic detail that had to be meticulously carved onto six wood blocks before being printed on rice paper.