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What is a Map

What is a Map

FOSS4G-NA 2015

Andrew W Hill

March 19, 2015
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  1. Begin at the beginning and go on till you come

    to the end: then stop. Lewis Carrol
  2. More indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by

    guns. This assertion has its corollary: more indigenous territory can be defended and reclaimed by maps than by guns Bernard Nietschmann
  3. GIS

  4. Same address, same boundaries no matter what service is providing

    the tile credit Alan McConchie & Beth Schechter
  5. Crimea What you see in Russia What you see in

    Ukraine We work to provide as much discoverable information as possible so that users can make their own judgments about geopolitical disputes