Английская Википедия:Christopher Board
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Christopher Board OBE is a British cartographer and academic. Among his special interests are the histories of cartography and of military mapping in colonial South Africa.
Career
Board was appointed a lecturer in geography at the London School of Economics from 1 October 1963,[1] eventually retiring as a Senior Lecturer.
He served as chair of the UK Committee for Cartography, and of the British Cartographic Society.[2] In 1980 he was a founder of the Charles Close Society, for the study of Ordnance Survey maps, and served as its chair for sixteen years to 2012.[3][4] During his chairmanship, he almost doubled the society's membership.[4]
He was co-organiser of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) conference in 1991.[5] He edited the ICA Newsletter for several years from the mid-1990s.[5] He chaired the ICA's History of Cartography Commission from 1999 to 2003,[6] having earlier played a key role in its Commission of Cartographic Communication for seven years, after the death of its sitting chair.[5][7]
His 1993 book with Peter Barber, head of maps at the British Library, Tales from the map room : fact and fiction about maps and their makers was a tie-in with the BBC television series Tales from the Map Room.[8]
He has written text introductions for several reprints of old Ordnance Survey maps, published by Alan Godfrey Maps.Шаблон:Citation needed
Honours
Board was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the International Cartographic Association in 1999,[5][7] and received the British Cartographic Society Medal in September 2004.[3]
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2005 New Year Honours, for services to cartography.[2]
Personal life
In 1983, Board was a contestant, partnered with a student, John Edmunds, on an episode of the television game show Treasure Hunt centred on the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.[9]
Selected papers
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- "Maps as Models". In: Chorley R.J., and Haggett P. (eds.), Models in Geography. London: Methuen. 1967.
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