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Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps

Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps

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General ReferenceTechnology & EngineeringTravel General

ISBN10: 1032170506
ISBN13: 9781032170503
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 26 2025
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps explores the mundane act of navigating cities in the age of digital mapping infrastructures.

Noone follows the frictions routing through Google Maps' categorising and classifying of spatial information. Complicating the assumption that digital maps distort a sense of direction, Noone argues that Google Maps' location awareness does more than just organise and orient a representation of space--it also organises and orients imaginaries of publicness, selfsufficiency, legibility, and error. At the same time, Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps helps to animate the ordinary ways people are challenging and refusing Google Maps' vision of the world. Drawing on an arts-based field study spanning the streets of London, New York, London, Toronto, and Amsterdam, Noone's encounters of asking for directions open up lines of inquiry and spatial scores that cut through Google's universal mapping project.

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