Abstract :
"It drives me bonkers," says Ed Parsons, "that every August there are all these articles published moaning about how people don\´t know how to read maps anymore." But according to Parsons, who attributes this annual phenomenon to nothing more than the "silly season", today we have more access to mapping data than ever before. He says: "We are living in the Golden Age of Cartography and it is geospatial technology that is leading the way."