Cartographic Considerations for Ethical Rockhounding
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: When does location information on an interactive web map become too detailed and identifiable? In this case study, I discuss the issues that arose when the Washington Geological Survey converted a decades-old printed rockhounding location map into multiple interactive, variable-scale web maps. These issues include topics relating to privacy, land management, rock-collecting laws, and the ethical responsibility of a state agency to consider the many different ways that such maps could be used.
Source: Cartographic Perspectives
DOI: 10.14714/cp105.1967
Author: Daniel E. Coe
Institution: Washington Geological Survey
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408825513