Ed Parsons currently the geospatial technologist at Google plays a significant role in putting the Geography into Google (see what I did with the title, did you?)
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/the-man-whos-making-google-maps-smarter-9544478.html
I've been banging one particular drum for a while ...
"Most of our cartographic principles were tied to paper. You make a map, print it and everyone sees it the same. For 1,000 years, that's what we've done. Now, our media are so dynamic that maps can be personal, they can change."
But there is an underside to this that as a discipline, GIS and/or cartography aren't yet on top of.
Google maps change based on where you access them. That's not just the centre but the underlying map data - that thing you take for granted as being fixed or authoritative in some way. Take the Ukraine as an example...
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/the-man-whos-making-google-maps-smarter-9544478.html
I've been banging one particular drum for a while ...
"Most of our cartographic principles were tied to paper. You make a map, print it and everyone sees it the same. For 1,000 years, that's what we've done. Now, our media are so dynamic that maps can be personal, they can change."
But there is an underside to this that as a discipline, GIS and/or cartography aren't yet on top of.
Google maps change based on where you access them. That's not just the centre but the underlying map data - that thing you take for granted as being fixed or authoritative in some way. Take the Ukraine as an example...
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