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Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy (Paperback)

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Key Phrases: locational privacy, original color map, interpretability rating scales, New York, United States, Air Force (more...)

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The author of many excellent books on cartography, Monmonier explores the ramifications of studding the physical and digital landscapes with tracking equipment. Security cameras, ATMs, tollbooth EZ-Passes, and credit-card terminals archive a person's movements and transactions, and some of the data are being cached in "data warehouses" for as-needed snooping. Match this with satellite surveillance and the imminent embedding of GPS technology in cell phones and possibly beneath a person's skin, and Big Brother's technology looks positively primitive. Monmonier explains the trade-offs of each particular data system, noting their specialized applications for agriculture, forest fires, storms, traffic, tax assessment, electoral redistricting, crime control, and more. But he also explains that "geographic information systems" can integrate separate domains of data, to the delight of marketers. We, whose compromised privacy provokes less joy, can at least be glad of Monmonier's incisive account of "dataveillance" and its implications for civil liberties. Gilbert Taylor
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"With electronic spies in the sky, sensors under the streets, and geographic data banks everywhere, it takes Mark Monmonier's knowledge and insight to make sense of the new landscape of locational privacy. This is fascinating reading, indispensable to watchers and watched alike." - Edward Tenner, author of Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Paperback: 250 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (April 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226534286
ISBN-13: 978-0226534282
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
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Privacy and mapping are two words that rarely share the same sentence. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
locational privacy, original color map, interpretability rating scales, overhead assets, nadir track, traffic cams, relief displacement, ground swath, overhead surveillance, fire perimeter, space reconnaissance, fuel models, loop detectors, community notification, precision agriculture, offender registry, overlay analysis, revisit time, wildland fire, public health management, panoptic gaze

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New York, United States, Air Force, Forest Service, Census Bureau, National Weather Service, Big Brother, Hurricane Andrew, Maps That Watch, Defense Department, Postal Service, Space Imaging, John Pike, Weather Eyes, White House, Crime Watch, Main Street, Megan's Law, New Jersey, Onondaga County, Waldorf Parkway, West Islip, World War, Geological Survey, National Hurricane Center

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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but light reading on Surveillance technology, June 11, 2006

By	Jose Manuel De Arce (Alcala de Henares, Madrid Spain) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This books addresses some topics on satellite imaging, and other technology fields applied to surveillance.
While an interesting reading, and providing very good detail (evolution of satellite resolution over the years) in some areas, it stays on the surface of others, giving the reader (me at least) the impression that there was a lot left outside. Some chapters do not deal with privacy of individuals, but communities.
The book is short and easy to read, and will provide with some good "food for thought".

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5.0 out of 5 stars good overview of satalite technologies, March 27, 2003

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this is a great book. its easy to read and informative. it gives clear examples and even includes pictures to help the explain concepts its talking about. its a good sampling of what satelite technology can and cant do and what and how its used in our everyday lives. and about how satelites are used in making maps and mapping and what the maps are used for.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, if not well named, November 9, 2009

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Really, I find this book more about surveillance in general than spying as I usually think of the term. Nitpicking aside, this book very nearly changes the meaning of the word 'map,' giving the concept a far richer meaning than what's where, printed on a sheet of paper.

The surveillance that Monmonier describes goes back at least to the 1920s, at least. Veterans of WWI brought their knowledge of aerial photography to the USDA, where it found peacetime use characterizing soils, forests, and farms. Infra-red imagery, in particular, helped identify moisture and other conditions, so that farmers could tend different fields according to their different needs. Monmonier the traces this history forward, to the side-looking radars and multispectral imaging of today's satellite imagery. These not only track the heights of mountains and even buildings, they add layer upon layer of different kinds of raw sensor data to the basic plan of the earth and its surface. Although Monmonier discusses civilian applications more than military ones, he also goes into some of the declassified history of deeply classified military reconnaissance, and show how military technology then becomes commercial technology now.

Having added many dimensions of detail to fixed maps, Monmonier adds the dimension of time, as well. On larger scales, this could mean tracing plumes of aerial pollution as they spread with the wind. On smaller scales, it relates to urban microphone networks that identify the sources of gunshots or surveillance cameras tracking potential criminal activity. Wide networks of real-time updates change the game completely. Instead of the relatively static, even boring geographical exercises of my school days, cartography forms the foundation of rich and dynamic data analysis systems that support civic and commercial functions as well as military.

For all that, this book's analysis ends with its 2002 publication date. Of necessity, it omits more recent innovations like Google Maps and the open APIs that potentially turn everyone one geographic analysts. Whether it's a kid's map with virtual thumbtacks at friends' houses or an open source effort relating North Korea's satellite images to its news events, geography has come to life. Although Monmonier says relatively little about the military applications implied in this book's title, this book covers everything from agriculture to civil liberties, all in terms of deeply annotated geographical databases - formerly known as maps.

- wiredweird

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