Acknowledgements
This essay would not have been written without Antoni Moore’s (University of Otago) encouragement and editorial help; I am deeply grateful to Antoni for being there for me when the time was tight. My sincere thanks go to Nicola Legat and Olive Owens (Massey University Press) who provided much needed support with atlas illustrations. I am thankful to William Cartwright, Anne Ruas and Kenneth Field (International Journal of Cartography) for the opportunity to contribute to the Special Issue Cartographers write about Cartography edited by them. I wish to thank Chris and Tim for their gift of We Are Here.
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