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This podcast discusses how AI is rapidly transforming cartography. Cartographers Ken Field and Ian Muehlenhaus describe their “Map-a-Day with AI” project, where they use AI tools to create maps quickly and explore AI’s strengths and limitations. They argue that AI is automating much of the technical work of mapmaking, shifting human roles toward directing, prompting, and quality-checking maps rather than manually creating them. Despite concerns about accuracy, jobs, and misinformation, they see AI as a major technological shift that mapmakers must adapt to rather than ignore.
This episode of the Geomob podcast is sponsored by the Open Geospatial Consortium.
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On the Geomob podcast every week we discuss themes from the geo industry, interview Geomob speakers, and provide regular updates about our own projects.
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