Archive - Worldbuilder

Street View: A History

How imagery visualizing the scenes along routes came to be

Jan 12 •

Christopher Beddow

December 2024

Maps in Apps: Travel Booking

Data and cartography are underperforming assets when booking accommodation

Dec 1, 2024 •

Christopher Beddow

November 2024

October 2024

Spatial Creativity

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

Oct 20, 2024 •

Christopher Beddow

July 2024

Mapping What Matters

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

Jul 23, 2024 •

Christopher Beddow

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

February 2023

The Fractal Map and Impossible Symmetry

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

Feb 26, 2023 •

Christopher Beddow

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

July 2022

Location in the Visual World

VPS and other AR developer tools from a geospatial viewpoint

Jul 18, 2022 •

Christopher Beddow

May 2022

From Map Making to World Building

Turning up the complexity as geospatial evolves

May 25, 2022 •

Christopher Beddow

April 2022

The Immersive Map

Making the world into our canvas

Apr 10, 2022 •

Christopher Beddow

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