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    Britons go map-crazy, with geographical games and books becoming bestsellers

    Oct 31, 2023 3 minutes

    In a world where we get from A to B by following the shortest route on our phones or satnavs, are cartographers mapping their way back into our national psyche?

    Rather than ignoring what is around us, we appear to be increasingly fascinated with locations and their significance, whether it is through a viral tube map game, YouTube videos or books about geopolitics.

    According to the software developer Benjamin Tran Dinh, his online game Metro Memory – which requires players to name as many of the 416 London tube stations as

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