{"id":1787071,"date":"2019-02-06T18:43:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T23:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787071"},"modified":"2019-02-06T18:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T23:43:33","slug":"technochauvinism-deep-knowledge-and-paper-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/02\/technochauvinism-deep-knowledge-and-paper-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Technochauvinism, Deep Knowledge and Paper Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paper maps continue to find their defenders. The latest is Meredith Broussard, author of Artificial Unintelligence<\/em><\/a>. In a piece for The Conversation<\/em><\/a>, she applies her argument against what she calls “technochauvinism”\u2014the idea that the digital and the technological are always better\u2014to mapmaking. “Technochauvinists<\/a> may believe that all digital maps are good,” she writes, “but just as in the paper world, the accuracy of digital maps depends entirely on the level of detail and fact-checking invested by the company making the map.” Errors on paper maps are more forgivable because, she argues, we recognize that paper maps fall out of date.<\/p>\n

She also distinguishes between surface<\/em> and deep<\/em> knowledge, and associates digital maps with the former and paper maps with the latter, but there’s a risk of getting cause and effect spun around. “A 2013 study<\/a> showed that, as a person\u2019s geographic skill increases, so does their preference for paper maps,” she writes; but it doesn’t follow that paper maps lead to geographic skill. Those with poor map-reading abilities may do the bare minimum required to navigate, and nowadays that means using your phone. [WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paper maps continue to find their defenders. The latest is Meredith Broussard, author of Artificial Unintelligence. In a piece for The Conversation, she applies her argument against what she calls “technochauvinism”\u2014the idea that the digital… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[752],"tags":[237,845],"class_list":["post-1787071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-navigation","tag-map-literacy","tag-paper-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787091,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/02\/more-on-the-pros-and-cons-of-paper-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787071,"position":0},"title":"More on the Pros and Cons of Paper Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 February 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"The flurry of articles defending paper maps continues, and it can be tricky to separate them from one another: some are in the context of the Standfords store move; others are reprints of Meredith Broussard's\u00a0Conversation piece. But Sidney Stevens's essay for\u00a0Mother Nature Network\u00a0is its own thing. It acknowledges both the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Navigation"","block_context":{"text":"Navigation","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/navigation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1787028,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/more-on-stanfordss-move-and-paper-maps-comeback\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787071,"position":1},"title":"More on Stanfords’s Move and Paper Maps’ Comeback","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"21 January 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Another article on the comeback of paper maps that is really about the move of the venerable map and travel bookstore Stanfords\u2019s London store to new digs, this time from Nicholas Crane in the Financial Times. He maunders a bit, as do many map aficionados when we get started, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Industry"","block_context":{"text":"Industry","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/industry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1786774,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/11\/popular-mechanics-proselytizes-paper-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787071,"position":2},"title":"Popular Mechanics Proselytizes Paper Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 November 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Popular Mechanics: \"Even in 2019, there are good reasons to own a paper map, whether it's the kind you can grab at the gas station or a sturdy road atlas [...] that lives in your car.\" This is a listicle, so six reasons are given, some of which are absolute\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Navigation"","block_context":{"text":"Navigation","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/navigation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1786172,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/gatineau-park-recommends-paper-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787071,"position":3},"title":"Gatineau Park Recommends Paper Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 August 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Relying on your smartphone's maps can be risky in places where cellular service is patchy. That goes for Gatineau Park, where, despite the fact that its southeast corner is surrounded by the city of Gatineau, Quebec (across the river from Ottawa), staff still recommend people use paper maps, CBC News\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mobile"","block_context":{"text":"Mobile","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/mobile\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/gatineau-park-map-1024x448.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/gatineau-park-map-1024x448.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/gatineau-park-map-1024x448.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/gatineau-park-map-1024x448.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1786946,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/stanfords-cartographer-paper-is-going-to-make-a-comeback\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787071,"position":4},"title":"Stanfords Cartographer: ‘Paper Is Going to Make a Comeback’","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 January 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"You know who isn't worried about the future of paper maps and whether people still know how to use them? The people who actually sell them. The Guardian\u2019s Kevin Rushby talks to Stanfords cartographer Martin Greenaway, ostensibly on the occasion of the venerable map store's move to new digs in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Industry"","block_context":{"text":"Industry","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/industry\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1788113,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/12\/nostalgic-for-old-school-tv-weather-maps-really\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787071,"position":5},"title":"Nostalgic for Old-School TV Weather Maps. Really?","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 December 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"I\u2019ve seen a lot of nostalgic pieces about paper maps and the advent of digital maps (here\u2019s another one) that they\u2019re almost not worth mentioning. But this piece about TV weather maps\u2014specifically, bemoaning the loss of physical weather maps on which presenters \u201cslapped magnetic clouds on to paper cutouts\u201d and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Movies and Television"","block_context":{"text":"Movies and Television","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/movies-and-television\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787076,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787071\/revisions\/1787076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}