{"id":6115,"date":"2012-09-24T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2012-09-23T23:46:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T03:46:30","slug":"the-importance-of-maps-in-our-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-importance-of-maps-in-our-society\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance Of Maps In Our Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/092312_1908_TheImportan1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-19659736\">bungled attempt at mapping<\/a> (something that should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/what-happens-to-apple-if-the-iphone-fails\/\">particularly concern<\/a> its executives) has put maps in the spotlight. Vanessa Thorpe looked at the role that maps play in our society:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Throughout history the center of the map was a known cultural landmark such as London or Jerusalem.<\/li>\n<li>Now however with digital maps the individual is at the center of the map, explaining why they have become so popular in recent times.<\/li>\n<li>Maps also play an important role in children&#8217;s literature. The Hobbit, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Treasure Island all prominently featured maps. The Marauder&#8217;s Map in Harry Potter also played a pivotal role.<\/li>\n<li>Map makers have yielded a lot of influence in history and continue to do so in the present. Google mistakenly assigned some territory in Costa Rica to Nicaragua. Nicaraguans then used that mistake as a justification to invade the territory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the mountain range that never was, and the future of maps over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2012\/sep\/22\/why-maps-shape-our-minds\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2012\/sep\/22\/why-maps-shape-our-minds\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s bungled attempt at mapping (something that should particularly concern its executives) has put maps in the spotlight. Vanessa Thorpe looked at the role that maps play in our society: Throughout history the center of the map was a known cultural landmark such as London or Jerusalem. Now however with digital maps the individual is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/092312_1908_TheImportan1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6125,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions\/6125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}