Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Virtual globesObviously, no one organization in government, industry or academia could undertake such a project.Like the World Wide Web, it would require the grassroots efforts of hundreds of thousands of individuals, companies, university researchers, and government organizations.… It could also become a "collaboratory"-a laboratory without walls-for research scientists seeking to understand the complex interaction between humanity and our environment.(Gore, 1998) 5 Mega-projects are often inspired by mega-problems.Cartographic mega-projects make no exception.The agenda informing Gore's Virtual Globe included: conducting virtual diplomacy; fighting crime; preserving biodiversity; predicting climate change; increasing agricultural productivity.Gore's plans might sound grand and utopian, but if we journey a century back in time we find that the ambitions of late nineteenth-A World of "Slippy Maps": Google Earth, Global Visions, and Topographies of M...
Source: Transatlantica
Author: Veronica della Dora
Institution: University of Bristol
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1522915696