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Unstructured Reality: Digital Twins and the Symbolic Map
How capturing reality is expanding databases, but not changing maps
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Christopher Beddow

February 2023

The Fractal Map and Impossible Symmetry
Is a 1:1 digital map of the earth attainable?
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Christopher Beddow

January 2023

Generative Mapping: ChatGPT and OpenStreetMap
A brief brainstorm about generative mapping and an AI that takes textual commands
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Christopher Beddow

July 2022

Location in the Visual World
VPS and other AR developer tools from a geospatial viewpoint
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Christopher Beddow

May 2022

From Map Making to World Building
Turning up the complexity as geospatial evolves
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Christopher Beddow

April 2022

The Immersive Map
Making the world into our canvas
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Christopher Beddow

March 2022

Unbundling Google Maps
A look at how many small apps fit together as one
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Christopher Beddow
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May 2021

The Scattering of the City
Do remote work, nomadism, and disalusion deconstruct cities like collapsed towers of Babel?
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Christopher Beddow

March 2021

Will the mobile map application decentralize?
When in Rome, use the mobile map app that the Romans use
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Christopher Beddow

January 2021

The Mobile Map App Part II: Pivoting and Flopping
How Maps.me was almost a gamechanger, but risks irrelevance
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Christopher Beddow
The Mobile Map App Part I: The Void
The landscape of OpenStreetMap-based mobile apps
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Christopher Beddow

December 2020

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