Décrypter l’innovation de la cartographie numérique grand public : entre marchandisation, appropriation et représentation égographique de l’information
As producers and consumers of data, users of mapping platforms play a key role in the commodification of geographic information. Once considered as a simple spatial location tool, the map has now become a personalized digital medium used to locate a variety of information. In order to better fit the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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| Series: | M@ppemonde |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/mappemonde/5728 |
| Summary: | As producers and consumers of data, users of mapping platforms play a key role in the commodification of geographic information. Once considered as a simple spatial location tool, the map has now become a personalized digital medium used to locate a variety of information. In order to better fit the uses of the general public, these platforms innovate by activating three triggers of appropriation (egocentrism, temporality and data aggregation) which, in the end, relativize the ontological dimension of the map. Following this post-representational movement of cartography, egography — whose foundations are outlined in this article — goes beyond conventional cartographic representation through augmented reality. |
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| ISSN: | 0764-3470 1769-7298 |