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Record W2041478015 · doi:10.3138/carto.43.3.211

The Practices of Mapping

2008· article· en· W2041478015 on OpenAlex
Rob Kitchin

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Bibliographic record

VenueCartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographic Information Systems Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIdeologyArgument (complex analysis)EpistemologyCategorizationSubject (documents)CartographyNatural (archaeology)OntologySet (abstract data type)Cartographic generalizationSymbol (formal)PhilosophySociologyGeographyComputer sciencePoliticsLinguisticsArchaeologyGeneralizationLaw

Abstract

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For the past three decades Denis Wood has explored the
\nnature and power of maps; how maps are designed, used,
\nand understood, the role of maps in society; and
\ncartographic theory more broadly. His collaboration
\nwith John Fels, The Natures of Maps, furthers this project
\nand seeks to detail both the nature of maps and the nature
\nof maps. For Wood and Fels, ontological thinking
\nabout cartography has been fixated on the nature of
\nmaps. They illustrate this argument with reference to
\nArthur Robinson and J.B. Harley, two cartographic
\ntheorists with very different ideas about the ontology of
\nmaps – maps as objective truths and maps as social
\nconstructions. Wood and Fels argue that, despite their
\ndifferences, Robinson and Harley both conceive of a map
\nas having an inherent truth (they note that for Harley the
\nmap itself remains ideologically neutral, with ideology
\nbound to the subject of the map and not the map itself).
\nWood and Fels reject this position to argue that the
\nmap itself, its very make-up and construction – its selfpresentation
\nand design, its symbol set and categorization,
\nits attendant text and supporting discourse – is ideologically
\nloaded to convey a particular message. In so doing, a
\nmap does not simply represent the world, it produces the
\nworld. To illustrate their argument, they use the example
\nof the nature of a map – how the supposedly neutral,
\nobjective natural world is produced by maps –
\nto demonstrate how maps produce nature rather than
\nreflect it.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.919
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.348
Teacher spread0.306 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it