Following up Reggie’s post linking the Walker’s conceptual Civic Engagement map with Ecotrust’s pattern map of a Conservation Economy, WorldChanging offers a fascinating link-dump on the aesthetics of geographical and conceptual mapping. Of particular interest are a “What if” map that depicts how the actual life of its creator could’ve deviated–or still could as he moves forward, and a French site that correlates the country’s vote on the EU constitution with bloggers and websites that supported the “no” campaign.
Another great mapping project/social critique comes from the Institute for Applied Autonomy: “a web-based application charting the locations of closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras in urban environments,” iSee helps users “find routes that avoid these cameras (”paths of least surveillance“) … allowing them to walk around their cities without fear of being ‘caught on tape’ by unregulated security monitors.”
More on mapping at Future Feeder.