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Many of us will have stumbled across a map that has a gap where New Zealand ought to be. There's some famous examples - like Florida's Universal Studios globe, the 2019 IKEA wall map and the Kiwi traveller detained in Kazakhstan amid a visa mix up that wasn't helped by the world map at Customs failing to include a New Zealand she could point to, as proof of where she was from. But why does it keep happening?
It's just one of many map mysteries my next guests have sought to survey. Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman are the creators of a YouTube series called Map Men - which presents combines geographical questions and quirks with comedy. They've now written a book called This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and why it matters). It covers cartographical conundrums like paper towns, disappeared Soviet cities, impossible borders and whether Google Maps has completely ruined our ability to navigate.
