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OpenStreetMap, which was created in 2004, has been called the Wikipedia of cartography: it is the work of a global network of an estimated two million users, who construct editable maps of places that are typically off the grid.
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I would dissent from just one phrase in his magnificent book A History of the World in Twelve Maps, when he points to the human agents behind every coercive cartography and states that "it is not in the nature of maps meaningfully to change anything".
The network of references it unleashes defies any coherent visual or interpretive cartography, and it is pleasantly impossible to know which of them are on purpose, which are dumb luck and which are simply your own reading.
But it is the cartography that reaches its full potential in digital form: zoom in tightly on Charles Booth's famous 1889 map of poverty zones, or a Victorian taxonomy of pubs called "The Modern Plague of London".
It is necessary to cartography the habitats but also it is important to classify and develop tools to asses at adequate management scales.
"It's like the cartography of the universe," said Dr. Wayne Hu, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago.
When Seabrook was growing up, this cultural "cartography of status" was stable and legible; it was as easy to consult as the New Yorker magazines crisply laid out on his parents' coffee table.
Spivet lives on Coppertop Ranch in the wilds of Montana and it quickly becomes clear that the cartography he is interested in is not the stuff of the Ordnance Survey.
Indeed, manual effort is demanded for the creation of cartography, which is something that Google also does for its popular map system [29].
Apple designed the whole system themselves, including the cartography, which is why you may notice a differently colored icon for Maps come iOS 6 update time.
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