Worldbuilder

Seeing Double and Measuring Twice

Stereoscopy, Data Quality, and Multiple Perspectives

Aug 8 • 

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April 2025

Discovery and Rediscovery in Spatial Data

Knowing what is where, how to get there, what it's like, and why

Apr 6 • 

Christopher Beddow

March 2025

Crowdsourcing and Mapping: Pieces of the Puzzle

How human perspectives and motivations can build maps

Mar 30 • 

Christopher Beddow

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January 2025

Street View: A History

How imagery visualizing the scenes along routes came to be

Jan 12 • 

Christopher Beddow

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December 2024

Maps in Apps: Travel Booking

Data and cartography are underperforming assets when booking accommodation

Dec 1, 2024 • 

Christopher Beddow

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November 2024

Synchronization of the Editable World

Maps reflect reality, but can they keep up with the unfolding of time?

Nov 20, 2024 • 

Christopher Beddow

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Toponymy in Mapping

The past, present, and future of place names

Nov 3, 2024 • 

Christopher Beddow

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October 2024

Spatial Creativity

Does advancing map technology mean improving it, or rethinking it?

Oct 20, 2024 • 

Christopher Beddow

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July 2024

Mapping What Matters

Where are all the things I need to find on a human scale?

Jul 23, 2024 • 

Christopher Beddow

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April 2024

Unstructured Reality: Digital Twins and the Symbolic Map

How capturing reality is expanding databases, but not changing maps

Apr 14, 2024 • 

Christopher Beddow

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February 2023

The Fractal Map and Impossible Symmetry

Is a 1:1 digital map of the earth attainable?

Feb 26, 2023 • 

Christopher Beddow

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January 2023

Generative Mapping: ChatGPT and OpenStreetMap

A brief brainstorm about generative mapping and an AI that takes textual commands

Jan 24, 2023 • 

Christopher Beddow

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