Indeed -- Schulyer, Jo and Rich quote from Fuller in "Mapping Hacks,"
which was one of the things that prompted my question actually.
I'm reading some William Mitchell and the Headmap Manifesto now. Very cool.
AN
brian grant wrote:
Buckminster Fuller's patented Dymaxion Map of the Earth comes to mind as
does his promotion of Spaceship Earth. It's too bad his World Game didn't
get as much mileage; the game's focus on responsible use and distribution of
resources is just as timely today as it was when he was promoting it 40
years ago.
He was a yankee engineer way ahead of his time who saw the importance of a
map not biased by political boundaries but based on eliminating error.
His world view was unorthodox and his map non-orthogonal.
- H. B. Grant
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Subject: [Geowanking] mapping philosophies?
I'm in the early stages of researching an article about map hackers for
Wired magazine -- I know the term "map hackers" is vague, but that will
change. What I'm wondering is whether folks here have been inspired by
any particular philosophies or theories of geography in their work? Is
there a Norbert Wiener or Lawrence Lessig of the geowank world? Somebody
who is geeky but also policy-minded or philosophical, whose ideas have
inspired you to make map tools or build geolocation tech?
Annalee
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