Also, I think with the rise of social media, few people want maps. Consider that in the new consumer landscape, facts and analysis are marginalized as maybe "nice to have", but rarely essential to the mission. Shared reasoning is 20th Century thinking, so if it doesn't tell *me* how to get to *my* next appointment, what meaning can it possibly have for me? Maps, anymore, are things that managers requisition by fiat as an affirmation of power and influence. And that too is largely a singular and personal artifice.
The former president solidly underlined the role of cartography in our society with his Sharpie pen meteorological wizardry.
IMHO, the idea that "..opportunities for consumer maps are being missed..." could be abstracted (and extended) to data presented as visual information too....charts, graphs, timelines, and more.
When we get most of our "information" from Tik-tok and AI, who needs a map? And why? And to be fair, did maps ever serve any _real_ decision process in the Anytown, U.S.A. "planning" department, where decisions are made long before the maps are created?
Is CARTO not a thing here? Just wondering?
Also, I think with the rise of social media, few people want maps. Consider that in the new consumer landscape, facts and analysis are marginalized as maybe "nice to have", but rarely essential to the mission. Shared reasoning is 20th Century thinking, so if it doesn't tell *me* how to get to *my* next appointment, what meaning can it possibly have for me? Maps, anymore, are things that managers requisition by fiat as an affirmation of power and influence. And that too is largely a singular and personal artifice.
The former president solidly underlined the role of cartography in our society with his Sharpie pen meteorological wizardry.
IMHO, the idea that "..opportunities for consumer maps are being missed..." could be abstracted (and extended) to data presented as visual information too....charts, graphs, timelines, and more.
When we get most of our "information" from Tik-tok and AI, who needs a map? And why? And to be fair, did maps ever serve any _real_ decision process in the Anytown, U.S.A. "planning" department, where decisions are made long before the maps are created?