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GIS/maps

Imagine a world without maps. It would be like a world without writing, art or music. We would not be where we are now if we hadn't had maps to help us explore and conquer uncharted territory. Maps are like writing: they convey information through paper. Maps are like images: sometimes they say more than a 1000 words.

"A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected." - Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

Mapmaking has gone through a history of its own. From the half-fantasized cartographically incorrect worldmaps of the times of conquests, to the Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Tom Toms and the entire Geoweb. GIS, once the domain of professionals increasingly becomes available to the public in freeware and again: the Geoweb. Do you know what that is? It's Google maps! It's the geotags you add to your twitter, it's the layers-app or any other app using the location-information from your smartphone. Imagine the world without maps. We would be lost.

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GIS/Map-Projects