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Online maps 'wiping out history'

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Internet mapping is wiping the rich geography and history of Britain off the map, the president of the British Cartographic Society has said.

Mary Spence is concerned that we are "demolishing thousands of years of history", but technology journalist Adrian Mars says many people are discovering new places as a result.

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