Category: Geography

INTRODUCTION The modern technology/business concepts of open source, crowd sourcing and information clouds would not have been entirely foreign to the national defense environment of World War II. The terminology would not have been understood, of course, and the communications infrastructure would not exist for decades. What did exist, however, were complex organizational structures of… Read more

“A map has no vocabulary, no lexicon of precise meanings. It communicates in lines, hues, tones, coded symbols, and empty spaces, much like music. Nor does a map have its own voice. It is many-tongued, a chorus reciting centuries of accumulated knowledge in echoed chants. A map provides no answers. It only suggests where to… Read more