{"id":842,"date":"2006-11-21T10:04:54","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T10:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2006-11-21T10:04:54","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T10:04:54","slug":"terrain_as_browsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/21\/terrain_as_browsing\/","title":{"rendered":"terrain as browsing mechanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben&#8217;s post last week, <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/book_as_terrain.html\">book as terrain<\/a>, about converting any image to an interactive map with hotspots contained a link to a blog which collects info about all sorts of <a href=\"http:\/\/googlemapsmania.blogspot.com\/\">google map mashups<\/a>. Ben&#8217;s post was about using book pages as geographic jumping-off points.  However, as i read the endlessly fascinating list of other sorts of mashups it occurred to me that in addition to &#8220;book as terrain&#8221; we could also look at the idea of &#8220;Google map mashups&#8221; as a genuinely new form of expression.  As I read through the wonderfully annotated list I realized that they cover the full gamut of subjects you would find in a bookstore  . . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/Athens\/4209\/maps\/kerouac_map.htm\">Fiction<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.headlinemap.com\/\">Non-Fiction<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualtourism.blogspot.com\/\">Travel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmdb.org\/\">History<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gphe.org\/z_map.php\">Sports<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mapwow.com\/     \">Games<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chpn.net\/maps\/directory.php?show=7\">Religion<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emotionalfootprints.com\/\">Personal Growth<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/raidmap\/#\">Crime<\/a>.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s interesting to realize that as our experience moves relentlessly into the virtual domain, that geography, which in the past was firmly rooted in the &#8220;real,&#8221; increasingly becomes the mechanism for organizing our activiites in virtual space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben&#8217;s post last week, book as terrain, about converting any image to an interactive map with hotspots contained a link to a blog which collects info about all sorts of google map mashups. Ben&#8217;s post was about using book pages as geographic jumping-off points. However, as i read the endlessly fascinating list of other sorts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,755,1129,1142,1998],"tags":[2511],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-google","category-maps","category-mashup","category-web2-0","tag-google-mashup-books-web2-0-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}