{"id":1817957,"date":"2023-08-17T09:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1817957"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:19:40","slug":"the-routledge-handbook-of-geospatial-technologies-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/08\/the-routledge-handbook-of-geospatial-technologies-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>Out this week: The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (Routledge<\/a>), a collection of essays edited by Alexander J. Kent and Doug Specht. \u201cContributors reflect on the changing role of geospatial technologies in society and highlight new applications that represent transformative directions in society and point towards new horizons. Furthermore, they encourage dialogue across disciplines to bring new theoretical perspectives on geospatial technologies, from neurology to heritage studies.\u201d Via Matthew Edney<\/a>, who\u2019s got a chapter in it on pre-1884 geospatial technology. Amazon<\/a> (Canada<\/a>, UK<\/a>), Bookshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kent previously co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (Routledge<\/a>, 2017) with Peter Vujakovic (previously<\/a>), and co-authored The Red Atlas<\/em> (University of Chicago Press<\/a>, 2017) with John Davies (my review<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Out this week: The Routledge Handbook of Geospatial Technologies and Society (Routledge), a collection of essays edited by Alexander J. Kent and Doug Specht. \u201cContributors reflect on the changing role of geospatial technologies in society… 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":[28],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1817957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-gis","tag-books","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1791428,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/07\/the-geospatial-revolution-project-mapping-the-pandemic\/","url_meta":{"origin":1817957,"position":0},"title":"The Geospatial Revolution Project: Mapping the Pandemic","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 July 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CjAuDfnVKi4 A decade after the Geospatial Revolution Project, which explored the use and impact of digital mapping technologies, released its fourth and (apparently) final episode, there\u2019s a new episode focusing on how digital mapping tools were conscripted into the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. 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