By Drew Bush The impact of newsroom cutbacks, consolidations, and closures across Canada will be the focus of a new crowdsourced online geoweb map. The public can contribute to it now—with the full map available online this June. “The idea of the map is it will allow us to gather data that we haven’t been able to gather on our … Read More
Mapping to Empower Excluded Populations with Jon Corbett at University of British Columbia
By Drew Bush In our daily usage, most maps contain a logical representation of a city’s streets or a forest’s hiking trails that allows us to safely navigate to new locations. For many indigenous and excluded populations, maps can play a more fundamental role. Jon Corbett, an Associate Professor in Community, Culture and Global Studies at the University of British … Read More