Mapping Hacks

The Feature has an article written by Michael Sharon for Douglas Rushkoff on
collaborative
cartography, featuring Mapping Hacks.

“Everything that people do has a geospatial component. We do everything
somewhere. Even thinking,” says Rich Gibson, self-taught computer geek and
co-author, along with Schuyler Erle and Jo Walsh, of O’Reilly’s forthcoming
book Mapping Hacks, who believes that allowing normal people to
manage, present and create media with a geospatial component will revolutionize
and democratize the process and practice of cartography. Although,
historically, cartography was a highly political, read-only medium for all but
a select few, now, thanks to our new tools, we all have the potential to make
our own maps. Cartography has become a read/write medium.

It’s a perceptive article on the state of modern, collaborative, digital
mapping - go check it out.

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