Ah, the thrilling world of #MapComplete on Mastodon, where digital cartographers gather to wield their mighty pixels in the name of #OpenStreetMap 📍. Because clearly, the most urgent call of our time is to ensure every pothole and park bench is chronicled for posterity 🗺️. It's the riveting revolution of map-making for those who really need a hobby! 😂
https://mapcomplete.org/ #DigitalCartography #MappingRevolution #Hobbyists #HackerNews #ngated

Is It Time To Redraw Our Maps? / ‘Free The Map’
(From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/14/is-it-time-to-redraw-our-maps <-- shared media article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1676031 <--shared paper
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https://freethemap.org/ <-- shared ‘Free The Map’ page, where “Prof. Henk van Houtum makes a compelling case for a new cartography…”
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[this post should not be considered an endorsement of any particular viewpoint or book/product]
#cartography #cartopolitics #geography #visualisation #humanimpacts #mapping #mapmaking #GIS #spatial #interpretation #history #borders #internationalborders #jigsawpuzzlemaps #neutrality #objectivity #mappingrevolution #uncertainty #subjectivity #multiplicity