There’s an interesting post on the World Changing blog about the difference between maps of infrastructure and maps of flow that include an element of surveillance.
“It’s hard to map flow. Infrastructure tends to stay put. But people, cars, and shipping containers move all the time. To build accurate maps, you can’t simply plot the location of an airport once – you’ve got to map each plane that flies during some period of time.”
The overriding premise here is that maps of flow are more profound for the conclusions that they allow us to draw and the connections that they reveal.
Read the full post here.
