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Quotes About Mapping

Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
~ Hanya Yanagihara
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
~ Stanislav Grof
Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
~ Jack Dangermond
Even seemingly innocuous housecleaning robots create maps of your home. That is information you want to make sure you control.
~ Oren Etzioni
No one has ever been able to successfully map the coast of sorrow. It is not because of the jagged reefs, the treacherous fogs and shoals. Or because it's prone to ferocious storms and deadly tides that can eat a ship as easily as it can a man in the water. No one has ever been able to map the coast of sorrow because so much of it is invisible.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Satellite imagery is the only way we can map the looting patterns effectively.
~ Sarah Parcak
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.
~ Junipero Serra
I am on my bike daily, and most of the locations, warehouses and specific residences from 'The Cut' were found while I was riding.
~ George Pelecanos
I can't tell you the number of times I've been walking over an archaeological site. And you can't see anything on the ground, and pull back hundreds of miles in space, and all of a sudden you can see streets and roads and houses and even pyramids.
~ Sarah Parcak
In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
~ Hans-Ulrich Obrist
They were astronomers plotting the trajectories of stars.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The automatic processes of the mental shotgun and intensity matching often make available one or more answers to easy questions that could be mapped onto the target question.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Sebbene lo Stato si ostini a dare un nome alle strade, la gente stabilisce i propri punti di riferimento in maniera del tutto autonoma. Una chiesa, una casa abbandonata, un parco, un edificio pubblico, uno stadio, un cimitero: qualunque cosa può andare bene. Ognuno insomma finisce per inventarsi una sua personale mappa urbana.
~ Dany Laferrière
the goal of a mapping effort isn't to complete an artifact, but to address the challenges the diagrams help discover and understand. Diagrams
~ James Kalbach
An experience is something that is constructed in the mind of the perceiver. It's not something an organization owns. To map experiences, investigation into those experiences from the perspective of the individual is necessary.
~ James Kalbach
Similarly, this is what mapping offers: new insight. It starts with an investigation and illustration of the human condition and then works out ways to support people's needs.
~ James Kalbach
The advice is clear: don't force people to bridge gaps of your offering. That's your job. Mapping experiences allows you to locate transitional volatility within a broader system of interactions and find innovative solutions to address it.
~ James Kalbach
Terrestrial lidar is currently being tested in self-driving vehicles and "intelligent" cruise control, which use lidar to map the ever-shifting environment around a car moving down a roadway
~ Douglas Preston
Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
~ Patti Smith
Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time. This misleads, as much as those beautiful photographs of a past holiday abstract from the heat, the mosquitoes, and the lack of connectivity. Policy making invariably involves taking measured risks in the face of uncertainty, for one has neither a prior template nor the luxury of indecision.
~ Raghuram G. Rajan
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
After college, I became a geologist, mapping what lay beneath the earth's surface. I thought I had my life pretty figured out and all my boxes checked. But then, I was laid off - along with thousands of other geologists. I lost not only my job, but also my profession.
~ John Hickenlooper
You may have heard that DNA is a 'blueprint' for a body, but that's deeply wrong. Houses and cars have blueprints. Babies don't. The difference is entirely separate from the fact that cars and houses are designed whereas babies aren't. Here's the deeper difference. In a blueprint there's a one-to-one 'mapping' between each bit of the house (or car) and each bit of the blueprint.
~ Richard Dawkins
terra incognita
~ Julia Cameron