http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=701 Blogging at KelsoCartography.com Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=701&cpage=1#comment-3935 Link Drop for the Week Ending in Friday the 5th (September 2008) | aboutCREATION Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:24:16 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=701#comment-3935 [...] Online maps ‘wiping out history’ (BBC) [kelso cartography]: EXCREPT: “Perhaps a bit alarmist but does point to the changing role of maps from conveyances of static sets of edited knowledge into a digital tabla rasa that displays the “where” of an individual user’s search results. Cultural landmarks that used to be included on maps for spatial orientation and perhaps a bit of boosterism are being left off the initial view. Users now have to know a feature exists before it is shown to them or ask for a certain overlay layer. But perhaps this is a reflection, too, on a society where the mainstream has been turned into 1000 separate channels? Or a jaded appreciation of information overload instead leaves us with a dirth of map information. Perhaps cartographic editors are good, after all.” [...]

]]> http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=701&cpage=1#comment-3924 DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » Blog Archive » Link Drop for the Week Ending in Friday the 5th (September 2008) Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:09:52 +0000 http://kelsocartography.com/blog/?p=701#comment-3924 [...] Online maps ‘wiping out history’ (BBC) [kelso cartography]: EXCREPT: “Perhaps a bit alarmist but does point to the changing role of maps from conveyances of static sets of edited knowledge into a digital tabla rasa that displays the “where” of an individual user’s search results. Cultural landmarks that used to be included on maps for spatial orientation and perhaps a bit of boosterism are being left off the initial view. Users now have to know a feature exists before it is shown to them or ask for a certain overlay layer. But perhaps this is a reflection, too, on a society where the mainstream has been turned into 1000 separate channels? Or a jaded appreciation of information overload instead leaves us with a dirth of map information. Perhaps cartographic editors are good, after all.” [...]

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