Who else loves maps?
With the recent slagging guidebooks are getting in another thread, it came to my notice there seems to be nothing but love for the venerable map.
A friend of mine insists that given enough time (and  ) all really great conversations will eventually involve getting out a map.
I find maps can be really inspirational bits of paper, I can get more fired up looking at the right map than I would at an 'old master'. Old ones, worn at the folds and stained from the road, are my favourite souvenirs.
Do you have a favourite map? Mine is either my battered IGN of Morocco that has made the trip twice now, or an old and now seriously out of date map of glencoe which I covered with sticky back plastic that was meant to go on the outside of my 'O' Grade maths book...
I am aware this thread may mark me out as a cartography geek and am quite prepared to pull it if I get nothing but a slagging!
Matt
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