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Episode: The Tyranny of Ambient Location: Ephemeral Maps
Description: Recorded January 28, 2019.
This second lecture of the new three year lecture series 'Out of the Ashes' will be presented by Dr Ed Parsons, Geospatial Technologist, Google
Maps are more used today than at any point in history. Many of us use maps every day, sometimes many times a day. Maps, delivered via apps on the mobile devices we all carry, are as much part of our lives today as credit cards and reading glasses. The term map is itself is perhaps no longer appropriate as these maps are, in fact, visualisations of massive real-time databases that mirror the world around...