Tag: maps

• The Mirrorworld Edition

  April 6, 2021

  What it’s really going to change in the short term is who’s empowered to make the simulations of the future. In the national security sector, simulations are a $12B market… more ›

• Cognitive Mapping and Social Change 1

  April 2, 2021

  Cognitive Mapping and Social Change 1 The Structure of Environmental Representations – the work of Kevin Lynch Kevin Lynch (1960) was an urban planner who carried out pioneering work on… more ›

• The mysterious user editing a global open-source map in China’s favor

  April 2, 2021

  A few years ago, the Indian OSM contributor said, they received a call from the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamshala, inviting them to hold a workshop on editing Wikipedia. “[They told… more ›

• How to make a 3D population density map

  November 29, 2020

  https://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2020/11/how-to-make-3d-population-density.html more ›

• Google Maps 101: How AI helps predict traffic and determine routes

  September 6, 2020

  Every day, over 1 billion kilometers are driven with Google Maps in more than 220 countries and territories around the world. When people navigate with Google Maps, aggregate location data… more ›

• Mapping Makoko: How data could help legitimize Nigeria’s informal settlements

  May 17, 2020

  MAKOKO, Nigeria — On Jan. 21 Shedrach Zunze woke up to the sound of gunshots in his home in Tarkwa Bay, the little corridor of the Lagos Lagoon, on the… more ›

• How Your Phone Betrays Democracy

  December 25, 2019

  In footage from drones hovering above, the nighttime streets of Hong Kong look almost incandescent, a constellation of tens of thousands of cellphone flashlights, swaying in unison. Each twinkle is… more ›

• Where Does Major American Art Come From? Mapping the Whitney Biennial.

  September 2, 2019

  The first Whitney Annual in 1932 was transgressive. The museum was a one-year-old fledgling, set in a rowhouse on West Eighth Street. Its founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was a collector… more ›

• Was the Automotive Era a Terrible Mistake?

  August 4, 2019

  The summer I was eighteen, I visited a parking lot forty-five minutes north of town and got behind the wheel for what I hoped would be the first real rite… more ›

• First You Make the Maps

  June 16, 2019

  How cartography made early modern global trade possible. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/trade-maps/index.html more ›