On the Inside of Maps: Digital Earth Vision

A heated philosophical discussion about aesthetic, value and attitudinal aspects of the crisis of cartography and Digital Earth has been the recent focus of the Russian Chapter of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE). Recognized at the ISDE Council meeting on September 27, 2019, the Russian ISDE Chapter has taken great efforts to develop modern approaches to governance, to introduce the best management practices, to organize scientific forums and venues, and to encourage intellectual development in the whole society. The Russian ISDE Chapter took part in an important outreach project - a critical study of cartography, carried out by the leading Russian philosophical and literary journal "Logos" （http://logosjournal.ru）focusing on philosophy, social and human sciences and cultural studies. A special issue of the journal, entitled "Research on Cartography" (Logos, 2023, Vol. 33, No. 1), gathered together works by Russian and foreign authors devoted to the nature of maps and their internal transformation in an era of the Digital Earth as a new approach to the representation of external reality. Criticism suggests a crisis; the study aimed to outline the problem and identify the reasons behind the increasingly apparent inadequacy of maps to solve the task of objectively representing real space. "There is something wrong with the common sense idea that the map represents territory. This is, if not a delusion, at least not the whole truth," argues the preface to "On the Inside of Maps: Critical Cartography" by the issue's editors Konstantin Ivanov, Alexander Pisarev and Stanislav Gavrilenko. "Critique of cartography is a research that aims to distinguish between what the professional views of the cartographer and/or the conventional notions of map and cartography do not distinguish in the map and mapping practices". In other words, it is about asserting the paradigmatic (in T. Kuhn's terms) nature of the geospatial crisis, which makes a philosophical discussion necessary and inevitable. Cartography does not just face the problems of mapping geospace and man's place in it. It has largely created these problems by introducing an inherently distorted information model of geospace. The discussion in the pages of "Logos" took place in a very broad interdisciplinary context. An important aspect of the discussion was the focus on aesthetic, value and attitudinal aspects of the crisis of cartography. The key motifs and intuitions of the proposed discussion, according to the editors of the issue, are embodied in the project of the Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili, which depicts wanderings and internal travails of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East. From now on this is how we see the horizon of classical cartography. An interesting feature of this, far from the first, critical study of cartography is its outreach nature, projecting the worldview crisis into other disciplines, problem areas and social circles, revealing its depth and multidimensionality, and aiming at a holistic search for its solution. The discussion was therefore summarised by a discussion of Digital Earth as a dialectical development of mapping that overcame its inextricable limitations. This point of view was presented in the paper "Digital Earth: the Geospatial Revolution and its Worldview Implications" by Eugene Eremchenko, Head of the Russian Chapter of the Digital Earth and ISDE Council member. Incorporating heterogeneous information into the holistic spatial-temporal volume of the Digital Earth is a mandatory condition for resolving a complex set of problems and contradictions that threaten the further development of civilization. In this respect, the scientific, technological and aesthetic development of Digital Earth as a new worldview paradigm and the sharing of Digital Earth Vision become a task of paramount importance. Particular attention should be paid to the aesthetics of Digital Earth, this little-explored and potentially very fruitful dimension of the geospatial revolution of our times. For the original piece of news and more updates about Russian ISDE Chapter, please click the link here: https://derussia.ru/2023/04/02/on-the-inside-of-maps-digital-earth-vision/. istarshine_translate: 在地图的内部：数字地球视觉 关于制图和数字地球危机的美学，价值和态度方面的激烈哲学讨论一直是国际数字地球学会（ISDE）俄罗斯分会的最新重点。在2019年9月27日的ISDE理事会会议上，俄罗斯ISDE章已经竭尽全力开发现代的治理方法，介绍最佳管理实践，组织科学论坛和场地，并鼓励整个社会的知识发展。俄罗斯ISD章节参加了一个重要的外展项目 - 一项对制图的批判性研究，由领先的俄罗斯哲学和文学杂志“ Logos”进行（http://logosjournal.ru（http://logosjournal.ru），重点是社会和人类科学，文化和文化科学和文化学习。该期刊的特刊题为“制图研究”（徽标，2023年，第33卷，第1号），汇集了俄罗斯和外国作者的作品，致力于地图的本质及其内部转变。数字地球是代表外部现实的新方法。批评表明危机。该研究旨在概述问题并确定地图越来越明显不足的原因，以解决客观地代表真实空间的任务。“地图代表领土的常识性思想是有问题的。这是，即使不是妄想，至少不是全部事实，”该问题的编辑的序言“在地图内部：批判制图”的序言中说Konstantin Ivanov，Alexander Pisarev和Stanislav Gavrilenko。“对制图的批评是一项研究，旨在区分制图师的专业观点和/或地图和制图的传统概念在地图和映射实践中没有区分”。换句话说，这是关于断言危机的性质（用T. kuhn的话来说）的性质，这使哲学讨论变得必要和不可避免。制图不仅面对绘制地理空间和人类在其中的位置的问题。它通过引入固有扭曲的地理空间信息模型来在很大程度上创造了这些问题。“徽标”页面的讨论是在非常广泛的跨学科背景下进行的。讨论的一个重要方面是关注制图危机的美学，价值和态度方面。根据该问题的编辑的说法，拟议讨论的主要主题和直觉在摩洛哥 - 法国艺术家Bouchra Khalili的项目中体现出来，该项目描绘了来自北非和中东的移民的流浪和内部苦难。从现在开始，我们如何看待古典制图的视野。这是一个有趣的特征，远非首次进行制图的批判性研究，是其外展的性质，将世界观危机投射到其他学科，问题领域和社交界，揭示其深度多维性，并针对其解决方案进行整体搜索。因此，讨论数字地球作为绘制的辩证法发展，总结了讨论，从而克服了其不可忽视的局限性。这一观点是在论文《数字地球：地理空间革命及其世界观的影响》中介绍的，尤金·埃姆申科（Eugene Eremchenko）是数字地球俄罗斯分会和ISDE理事会成员的负责人。将异质信息纳入数字地球的整体空间量表中是解决一系列复杂的问题和矛盾的强制性条件，从而威胁着文明的进一步发展。在这方面，数字地球作为新的世界观范式的科学，技术和审美发展以及数字地球视觉的共享成为至关重要的任务。应特别注意数字地球的美学，这是我们时代地理空间革命的鲜为人知且可能非常富有成果的维度。有关原始新闻和有关俄罗斯ISDE章节的更多更新，请单击此处的链接：https：//derussia.ru/2023/04/04/02/on-the-inside-of-maps-maps-maps-maps-digital-earth-vision/。