Geobble Journal

Ideas behind better geographic work

Essays, engineering notes, product philosophy, experiments, launches, and announcements from Geobble.

Why Evidence Should Travel with Extracted Geography

When a report says that a bridge lies near a village, extracting a point or line is only half the task.

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A Map Should Say What It Cannot Tell You

Maps are persuasive because they make complex data look spatially complete. A limitation note interrupts that completeness, which is why it is easy to omit—and why it matters.

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The Map Is Not the Territory—and the Dataset Is Not the Place

“The map is not the territory” is usually invoked as a warning about representation. Geographic data deserves the same warning.

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