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   ocr: One of the most important attributes of a successful map-reader is the ability to visualise VoigheJAR1E: the shape of the ground by studying the marks on the map. For hundreds of years, map-makers (known as cartographers') have tried different ways of representing a three-dimensional landscape on a flat, two-dimensional map. à A ton This map of an area in Dorset was drawn in 1811. Compare it with the modern map of the same place, fouthalown brdon which appears on the next page. ul