Cartography, privacy and Power ...

Cartography, privacy and Power

in the greatest degree of the fundamental technologies of contemporary American cartography were devised in the last half of the twentieth hundred and shaped by the exigencies and opportunities of the polar War. The technologies and their data sources were ofttimes secret, at least initially. The organizations that cause to growed and used these technologies evolv from classified programs to increasingly unclassified and accessible enterprises. This essay explores the histories of three closely related suites of geo-spatial sciences and technologies and their applications:

* The technologies for extending geodetic direction and geo-positioning, which culminated in the World Geodetic scheme (WGS) ...