The Geospatial Revolution
(Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger.) Just as in the original Renaissance, our world has gone map-crazy. But instead of simply marking off territory as national or corporate property, the maps of our era are as much about interrelationships and abstraction as place and territory. The Penn State GeoSpatial Revolution Project explores the way "the location of anything is becoming everything." There are some great opportunities here for cyber-cartographers and others to share and explore technologies and applications, and to extend both mapping and what is thought of as mapping. There's a great trailer on the site. If nothing else, this is a good way to introduce people to what it is we mean by "geospatial" or even "mapping" these days. We live in the Global Location Age. “Where am I?” is being replaced by, “Where am I in relation to everything else?” Penn State Public Broadcasting is developing the Geospatial Revolution Project, an integrated public media and outreach initiative about
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