Off The Map

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wisconsin Public Radio

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🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Maps, whether drawn by hand or by satellite, reflect the time they were drawn for. How will the next generation of cartographers deal with challenges like a world being reshaped by climate change?

Original Air Date: December 09, 2023

Interviews In This Hour:

Why are islands in the South Pacific disappearing? — Cartography in the age of Google Maps — This is your brain on maps — The mysterious music of the 'phantom islands'

Guests:

Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Mamata Akella, Bill Limpisathian, Andrew Pekler

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0:00.0	Hey friends, it's Anne.
0:05.3	Remember what maps were like when you were a kid?
0:08.0	On the super highways of modern America.
0:10.7	Those complicated folds and mysterious symbols, paths you could follow across deserts or into faraway mountains.
0:17.6	Meet Jimmy Rollins of Seattle on his way to Washington, D.C.
0:21.6	Maybe even to buried pirate treasure.
0:23.8	Gee whiz.
0:25.7	Well, maps have grown up since then.
0:28.2	Today, Google Maps makes finding everything from an obscure coffee shop to that buried treasure
0:33.1	as easy as pie.
0:35.5	But at what cost?
0:37.3	What does it mean to have an entire generation navigating with GPS?
0:42.3	And that's not the only thing the 21st century is brought to cartography. For the first time in history,
0:47.7	we're taking land off the map. Entire islands in the South Pacific have been lost forever thanks to climate change.
0:56.0	Today, unto the best of our knowledge, off the map. Keep listening.
1:04.2	Wisconsin Public Radio. It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strangeamps.
1:20.9	In this hour, we're going to be talking about cartography, about maps, which have been largely unchanged for a long time.
1:30.2	But here in the 21st century, something new is happening.
1:35.0	For the first time in history, we are taking land off the map.
1:40.8	In the South Pacific, entire islands have disappeared, thanks to climate change.
1:47.0	Here's Samoan journalist Lani Poeva Shirel Jackson.
1:53.0	Langi Poeva means the sky of nine nights, so Lange is sky, poor is night, and Eva is nine, sky of nine nights. So Lange is sky,
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