With the
increase in the availability of digital maps, some may argue that there is not
a place for paper maps anymore.
However,
Professor Paul Clough of the Information School recently conducted a study
which compared online and paper maps.
His study, based on the work of a former MSc student Paul Hurst from the Royal School of Military Survey, found that paper maps still have a key role to play.
The study
was referenced in a recent Wall
Street Journal article where Paul argued that paper maps still have an
important role to play and he specifically mentioned the importance of paper
maps over digital ones within the military:
“If you are
in Afghanistan or Syria, you can’t have a signal dropout – that would be
catastrophic.”
The full
article can be found in The
Wall Street Journal which is one of the USA’s leading national publications
and a top publication worldwide.
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