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The听North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)听has announced that collaborators James Cheshire (果冻影院 Geography) and Oliver Uberti are this year鈥檚 winner of the biennial听Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography.

The award is named after the central character in Barry Lopez's short story, 鈥淭he Mappist鈥�. It is intended to recognize imaginative cartography and celebrate work that simultaneously respects the qualities of cartographic excellence and imaginatively pushes the boundaries of what cartography can do.

The award committee reviewed a wide variety of nominations and decided that James and Oliver's body of work, including听London: The Information Capital听(2014) and听Where听 Animals Go听(2017), represents,

"a combination of on-the-ground, fact-based cartographic realism with eloquent and poetic dialogue about interactions with place".

They also note that,

"Through an appreciation of art and craft, [this] delightful series of atlases consistently engages and inspires the reader in the places and stories the atlases celebrate."

James and Oliver will accept their award and give the opening keynote at the NACIS Annual Conference next October in Norfolk, Virginia.