{"id":1786177,"date":"2018-08-22T13:54:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T17:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786177"},"modified":"2018-08-22T13:54:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T17:54:39","slug":"the-woman-who-gets-lost-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/the-woman-who-gets-lost-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Woman Who Gets Lost Every Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Woman Who Gets Lost Every Day\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M3Du7Kb-No0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Developmental topographic disorientation is a neurological disorder that prevents people from making <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_map\">cognitive maps<\/a>. People suffering from DTD literally get lost in familiar surroundings: their home, to and from work. As someone who literally cannot get lost, I have a hard time imagining what that could possibly be like. Enter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M3Du7Kb-No0\"><em>The Woman Who Gets Lost Every Day<\/em><\/a>, a short film about Sharon Roseman, a woman with DTD who shares how she experiences and navigates the world in her own words. [<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/video\/index\/566954\/lost-every-day\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>There have been a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettinglost.ca\/content.php?168-Selected-Media-Coverage\">news articles on DTD<\/a> since <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/global-impositioning-systems\/\">the <em>Walrus<\/em> article<\/a> I <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.maproomblog.com\/2011\/06\/how_gps_eats_our_brains.php\">told you about in 2011<\/a>. See, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2015\/05\/when-the-brain-cant-make-its-own-maps\/392273\/\">this 2015 article in <em>The Atlantic<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developmental topographic disorientation is a neurological disorder that prevents people from making cognitive maps. People suffering from DTD literally get lost in familiar surroundings: their home, to and from work. As someone who literally cannot&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/the-woman-who-gets-lost-every-day\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[752],"tags":[314,1264],"class_list":["post-1786177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-navigation","tag-cognitive-mapping","tag-developmental-topographic-disorientation","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787977,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/10\/australia-to-eliminate-paper-topographic-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786177,"position":0},"title":"Australia to Eliminate Paper Topographic Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 October 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"The Australian government agency responsible for printing topographic maps will stop printing them as of December, ABC Australia reports. Geoscience Australia cites a lack of demand for paper maps, but as you can imagine there\u2019s some pushback against the decision. (The Canadian government tried something similar back in 2006, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sport &amp; Recreation&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sport &amp; Recreation","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/sport-recreation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1328,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/the-change-1-topographic-atlas-of-the-moon\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786177,"position":1},"title":"The Chang&#8217;E-1 Topographic Atlas of the Moon","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Universe Today has a review of\u00a0The Chang'E-1 Topographic Atlas of the Moon (Springer, February 2016) a book of lunar maps based on digital elevation model data and stereo imagery\u00a0from the CNSA\u2019s\u00a0Chang'e-1\u00a0spacecraft.\u00a0(The first edition was\u00a0published in Chinese and English in 2012.)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/astronomy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"chang-e-topo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/chang-e-topo-150x118.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1919,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/05\/the-first-global-topographic-map-of-mercury\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786177,"position":2},"title":"The First Global Topographic Map of Mercury","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 May 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The first complete\u00a0topographic map of Mercury, based on data from the MESSENGER mission, was released last Friday: MESSENGER, USGS. The version above is a Robinson projection without labels (Robinson with labels, global DEM). \"Mercury\u2019s surface is colored according the topography of the surface, with regions with higher elevations colored brown,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/astronomy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"mercury-topo-robinson-nolabels","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mercury-topo-robinson-nolabels-1024x519.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mercury-topo-robinson-nolabels-1024x519.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mercury-topo-robinson-nolabels-1024x519.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mercury-topo-robinson-nolabels-1024x519.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1510,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/topographic-map-of-mars\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786177,"position":3},"title":"Topographic Map of Mars","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"12 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Daniel Mach\u00e1\u010dek released his topographic map of\u00a0Mars, based on the latest probe data, in November 2014. It uses the Mercator projection between 65\u00b0 north and\u00a065\u00b0 south latitude and stereographic projections for the poles. It can be downloaded in insanely high resolution: 17,400\u00d714,700 (78 MB JPEG, 106 MB PDF).\u00a0His blog post\u00a0(in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/astronomy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"machacek-mars","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/machacek-mars-1024x865.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/machacek-mars-1024x865.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/machacek-mars-1024x865.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/machacek-mars-1024x865.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5575,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2013\/05\/a-topographic-map-of-titan\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786177,"position":4},"title":"A Topographic Map of Titan","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 May 2013","format":"link","excerpt":"The Cassini team has released a global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan. What makes this map interesting is the fact that, due to its thick atmosphere, Titan can only be mapped by radar during Cassini's close flybys. As a result, only half of its surface has been imaged, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/astronomy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Global topographic map of Titan (NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASI\/JHUAPL\/Cornell\/Weizmann)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonathancrowe.net\/images\/2013\/titan-topo.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonathancrowe.net\/images\/2013\/titan-topo.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jonathancrowe.net\/images\/2013\/titan-topo.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":844,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/02\/copper-plates-used-to-make-topo-maps-on-display\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786177,"position":5},"title":"Copper Plates Used to Make Topo Maps on Display","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"13 February 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The Michigan State University Map Library now\u00a0has on display three\u00a0copper plates used to make the 1912\u00a0USGS topographic map of the Lansing, Michigan area. \"From the 1880s to the 1950s, the U.S. Geological Survey used engraved copper plates in the process of printing topographic and geographic quadrangle maps. 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