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Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Google maps
In the colonial era cartography was a method of dominance and the exercision of power over another set of people. This is because a map can never be objective. For example, UK readers, open a map and look where the UK is in relation to the rest of the world (in the middle). Now things are different, perhaps? Users are now being asked to chart local space to build 3 domensinal representations of the world. More here.
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