The history of web mapping

https://placing.technology/notes-on-the-history-of-the-map-tile

The always-fantastic Ingrid Burrington is researching a thesis on the history of web mapping, and blogging their results along the way.

What the dissertation is about, briefly (or, things I’m looking at)

• How maps make money (and whether it’s sustainable)
• The labor of doing geospatial (ground truthing/data collection, standards-setting and its discontents, actually super-hard and annoying math, being union-busted)
• What the business and labor constraints and conditions of geospatial software do to the work of doing geo stuff