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Counter-mapping's claim to incorporate counter-knowledges, and thereby empower traditionally disempowered people, has not gone uncontested. [58] A sample of criticisms leveled at counter-mapping: Counter-mapping fails to recognise that community is a constantly shifting, fluid process, too often relying on a notion of community as bounded and ...
Counter-maps have been used to press indigenous claims for rights over land. [18] Many critical cartographers have engaged in counter-mapping to rewrite the narrative of the history of Israel's expansion into territories contested with Palestine. One example is the Counter Cartographies Collective’s map of how much of the land belonged to ...
A Wardley map is a map for business strategy. [1] Components are positioned within a value chain and anchored by the user need, with movement described by an evolution axis. [ 2 ] Wardley maps are named after Simon Wardley who created the technique at Fotango in 2005 having created the evolutionary framing the previous year.
Digital Elevation Models, for example, have often been created not from new remote sensing data but from existing paper topographic maps. Many government and private publishers use the artwork (especially the contour lines) from existing topographic map sheets as the basis for their own specialized or updated topographic maps.
A couple of examples might be a dot map showing corn production in Indiana or a shaded area map of Ohio counties, divided into numerical choropleth classes. As the volume of geographic data has exploded over the last century, thematic cartography has become increasingly useful and necessary to interpret spatial, cultural and social data.
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In 2020, Azure Maps Visual for Power BI was released, integrating location-based features and mapping capabilities into Microsoft's business intelligence software. [12] An elevation API (which was later retired), [13] geolocation services, [14] and an iOS [15] and Android software development kit [16] were introduced in 2021.
Maps are useful in presenting key facts within a geographical context and enabling a descriptive overview of a complex concept to be accessed easily and quickly. WikiProject Maps encourages the creation of free maps and their upload on Wikimedia Commons. On the project's pages can be found advice, tools, links to resources, and map conventions.