Ms Mary Spence CGeog
Employer Name
Self employed
Biography
Mary is a Cartographic Design Consultant and publisher. In a career now spanning more than fifty years and with numerous award-winning maps to her credit she was invested with an MBE in 2004 for Services to Cartographic Design. She is a Chartered Geographer, a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and a Past President and Honorary Fellow of the British Cartographic Society. Mary is co-author (with Giles Darkes) of 'Cartography an introduction' now in its 2nd Edition, published by the British Cartographic Society. Her article on Colour in Cartography appears in The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography, a respected collation of contributions from specialists in their field. Her talents are acknowledged in 'The Women Who Shaped The World', an article by The Future Mapping Company that records their ‘Top 10 Female Cartographers of All Time'. Mary is also featured in 'Women and GIS' published by ESRI Press.