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How Maps Reveal the Secrets of our World
FromUnpacked by AFAR
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Sep 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
You may use Google Maps every day, but how often do you think about how that map was made—and more importantly, who made it? In today’s episode of Unpacked, we do just that. You’ll never again look at a map the same way.
Meet this week’s guests
Billie Cohen, AFAR executive editor
Evan Applegate, editorial cartographer
Clinton Johnson, Antiracist Geospatial Architect
Dr. Atyia Martin, executive director of a nonprofit called Next Development Leadership (among many other things)
Cymone Davis, former town manager of Tullahassee, Oklahoma, the oldest historically Black town in Oklahoma.
Resources
Read this episode’s show notes, including a full transcript of the episode.
Listen to Evan’s podcast, Very Expensive Maps, and check out the maps he makes.
See Clinton Johnson’s National Geographic Explorer award.
Explore Cymone and Dr. Martin’s Black Towns & Settlements Project.
Don't forget to sign up for our podcast newsletter, Behind the Mic. And a special thanks to our September sponsor, Explore Asheville.
Meet this week’s guests
Billie Cohen, AFAR executive editor
Evan Applegate, editorial cartographer
Clinton Johnson, Antiracist Geospatial Architect
Dr. Atyia Martin, executive director of a nonprofit called Next Development Leadership (among many other things)
Cymone Davis, former town manager of Tullahassee, Oklahoma, the oldest historically Black town in Oklahoma.
Resources
Read this episode’s show notes, including a full transcript of the episode.
Listen to Evan’s podcast, Very Expensive Maps, and check out the maps he makes.
See Clinton Johnson’s National Geographic Explorer award.
Explore Cymone and Dr. Martin’s Black Towns & Settlements Project.
Don't forget to sign up for our podcast newsletter, Behind the Mic. And a special thanks to our September sponsor, Explore Asheville.
Released:
Sep 14, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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