On the Map
Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern cartography
On the Map - Digital Maps
Mike Parker looks at cartography in the digital age and asks if internet mapping and satellite navigation are destroying good map making and map reading.
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On the Map - Mapping the Metropolis
Mike Parker finds out what makes the ideal map for steering us through the urban jungle, and discovers how digesting the entire London A to Z makes cabbies' brains bigger.
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On the Map - Maps of the Mind
Mike Parker visits a primary school in his home town and takes a trip to Ambridge, home of The Archers, to explore maps of the memory and imagination.
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On the Map - Motoring Maps
Mike Parker recalls a bygone age of elegant motoring maps and considers how modern road mapping and its unrelenting emphasis on our motorways has changed our picture of Britain.
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On the Map - Off the Map
Mike Parker visits a Cold War nuclear bunker, one of the many sites that until recently were simply blank spaces on Ordnance Survey maps.
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On the Map - Social Mapping
How society is now being analysed online in cartographic mash-ups and crowd-sourced data, and how mapping the human condition goes back to way before the digital age.
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On the Map - The Lie of the Land
There are lies, damned lies, statistics - and then there are maps. Mike Parker discovers how maps can be used as tools of power, politics and propaganda.
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On the Map - The Map Makers
Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern cartography. Mike considers the maps he first fell in love with as a teenager - Ordnance Survey maps.
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On the Map - Whose Map Is It Anyway?
As pressure mounts for Ordnance Survey to make its data free to use, Mike Parker asks if OS can maintain its hold on the national topgraphy.
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On the Map - World View
Mike Parker discovers how cartographers always have to keep one eye on the map and the other on the news as territorial disputes rage and borders change.
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