Golden Age of Cartography

A blog post on axismaps’ website has brought to the fore the place that cartography holds in the world of mapping. Of the ideas articulated, the ones I found most valuable for my practice were: “pocketcasting” and the simplier geo-moblogging.  Following the trend of many fields, most geo-apps assume a regal and righteous Do-It_Yourself (DIY) mentality; there is no clear demarcation between those that make the maps and those that use the maps.

Sites like geocommons and www.openstreetmap.org have open data and as a “commons,” assumes that those that use publicly sourced data will also be those that contribute to it.