How Drones and GPS Are Helping Indigenous People in Ecuador Save the Amazon
Maps, long used by colonizers to dispossess native peoples, are becoming a tool for indigenous people to reclaim sovereignty over their lands.
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Objects That Matter: Cartocontroversy
Imagine peeling an orange, then trying to lay the peel flat. Map-making is the art of manipulating the orange peel until it yields.
What’s Behind America’s Inability to Create a Trustworthy Broadband Map?
Broadband-mapping efforts from both the federal government at large and the FCC have had critical flaws that disproportionately affect rural and minority communities.
Crowdsourcing Data to Track How Rising Seas Affect King Tide Flooding
After collecting thousands of data points from a crowdsourced initiative, the Virginia Institute for Marine Science created maps that will improve regional flooding predictions.
Tracing Gentrification via Vintage Lightbulbs
Edison-era lightbulbs, known more for their fashionability than sustainability, have become a symbol of gentrification in the hipster capital of the world, Brooklyn.
How Bee Waggle Dances Could Inform Environmental Policy
To survey for pollinator foraging areas, researchers could tramp around and record what they find. Or a hive of bees could do the legwork for them.
Don’t Throw Away Your Paper Maps Just Yet
While GPS can tell you exactly where you stand, sometimes it takes a bit of dead-tree cartography to tell you where you are.
The Revolution Will Be Mapped
GIS mapping technology is helping underprivileged communities get better services — from education and transportation to health care and law enforcement — by showing exactly what discrimination looks like.
GIS: Cops Favor New Kind of Plotting
Spatial representation provides genuine clues to crime prevention for urban police forces.