David Preece, WFM Consultant at Route 101
I want to talk to you today about ancient maps, but I promise this isn't a geography or a history lesson.
I want you to think back to the ancient explorers. For centuries, cartographers could only map the world after someone had already sailed the oceans, hit a rock, sunk and lived to write about it. The mapmakers were, effectively, journalists and historians. They sat in dusty rooms, took the wreckage of past voyages, and drew lines to show where things used to be. It was entirely reactive.