Date: 28th April doors open 7pm talk at 7.30 pm
Venue: Ashcroft Hall Cirencester -visitors are welcome – a donation of £3.00 per person is invited.
Martin’s talk will provide a general introduction to the Soviet world mapping project – how the maps are created and what was their potential use. The discussion will include examples of topographic and city maps local to Cirencester. Martin’s research includes topographic mapping, Soviet mapping and the history of cartography.
Dr Martin Davis is Digital Map Curator at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, as well as Executive Secretary of the Commission on Topographic Mapping (International Cartographic Association) and Book Reviews Editor for The Cartographic Journal.