Contents
PART ONE: Origins and Properties of Online Maps
1.1. Maps as intellectual technology
1.2. A shift in the uses of maps
2.1. The origins of a communication approach to maps
2.2. The rise of the notion of participation within maps
3 A Participant in the Web of Platform
3.1. Technical architecture of Web maps
3.2. Google Maps versus OpenStreetMap?
4.1. Categories and data structure
4.2. Expressive, technical and scientific bricolage
PART TWO: Mapping Practices in Emergency Situations
5 The State of Information After the Fukushima Disaster
5.1. The challenges in accessing information
5.2. Flaws in the published data on radiation
6.2. Three attitudes toward radiation data sources
7.2. Taking action on the basis of a map
8 The Shape of Public Engagement
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