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 ...

But the UK’s national mapping agency, which is also one of the world’s oldest map makers, has suggested its paper versions are in decline as users replace them with its smartphone application.

Since the dawn of humankind, explorers and wanderers have been trying to make sense of the world around us, navigate by the stars, landmarks, and finally, roads. The earliest maps were created ...

Forget Google Maps: Why Paper Map Sales Are Booming. ... Historians consider this tablet, roughly 2,500 years old, the earliest existing map of the world. Even “modern” maps look quaint today, ...

Only half reckon they could find their way with a paper map if they got lost (Image: Greg Pease/Getty Images). More than four in ten (41 per cent) would go on more adventurous walks, and 23 per ...

Only half reckon they could find their way with a paper map if they got lost (Image: Greg Pease/Getty Images). More than four in ten (41 per cent) would go on more adventurous walks, and 23 per ...