Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into our movements and activities, even our likes and dislikes. In Spying with Maps, the maptician Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of field such as military intelligence. law enforcement, market research and traffic engineering. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he asks, lead to grave consequences...
Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and pape...
Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into our movements and activities, even our likes and dislikes. In Spying with Maps, the "mapmatician" Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of fields such as military intelligence, law enforcement, market research, and traffic engineering. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he asks, lead to...
Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they're also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic a...
Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation colors. It is this aspect of mapping its power to prohibit that...
Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishi...
Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation colors. It is this aspect of mapping its power to prohibit that...
Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishi...
