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# Cartography by hand, in 2026
- URL: https://quiet.labs.enova.studio/podcast/ep-11-cartography-by-hand-in-2026/
- Published: 2026-07-03T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T20:11:44.000Z
- Description: with Priya Raman · 49m
- Author: Enova Studio
- Tags: #podcast

Priya Raman draws maps by hand for people who could generate one in a second. I wanted to know who is buying them and why.

> A drawn map is a claim about what matters. The software makes a claim too, it just does not tell you it is making one.  
> Priya Raman

## In this episode

1. 01:55 The commission that started it: a parish boundary, drawn wrong on every digital map.
2. 12:40 How long a coastline takes, honestly.
3. 25:15 On deciding what to leave out.
4. 36:00 Clients: three museums, two councils and a great many walkers.
5. 44:30 Forty more years.

## Mentioned

- *On the Map* by Simon Garfield
- The Ordnance Survey first edition six-inch sheets
- Her own inks, mixed and unrepeatable

Recorded at her drawing board in Easton, with a radiator ticking.