How Maps Shape Information and News

Sunday August 10th 2008
Filed Under Issues in GIS, Maps 

Leslie Rule from the MediaShift Idea Lab (PBS.org) tackles the issue of “How Maps Shape Information and News”.  Her post was triggered by a video created bty Alisa Miller on “Global News 2.0″ which looked at “How the news shapes the way we see the world, and why Americans seem to know less and less about the world around them and their many connections to it.”

Leslie Rule looks beyond the recent movement towards community mapping, stating:

How can maps shape the way we see the world? When I look at the mapping being done these days, I love hyperlocal, community mapping. But as has been debated here, some community mapping projects are devoid of adequate context, and therefore it’s difficult to assess the meaning of the data.

Instead, her aims was to look “for great maps, which I defined as those that take information, and by virtue of the mash-up, make it knowledge.” The map she showcases isn’t one created in a traditional sense, but rather one that combines the spatial journey of Napoleon’s march to Russia in 1813.

Read more: How Maps Shape Information and News - Leslie Rule, PBS.org

Alisa Miller on Global News 2.0





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