How Maps Reveal the Secrets of our World

Unpacked by AFAR

You may use Google Maps every day, but how often do you think about how that map was made—and more importantly, who made it? In today’s episode of Unpacked, we do just that. You’ll never again look at a map the same way.

Meet this week’s guests

• Billie Cohen, AFAR executive editor
• Evan Applegate, editorial cartographer
• Clinton Johnson, Antiracist Geospatial Architect
• Dr. Atyia Martin, executive director of a nonprofit called Next Development Leadership (among many other things)
• Cymone Davis, former town manager of Tullahassee, Oklahoma, the oldest historically Black town in Oklahoma.

Resources

• Read this episode’s show notes, including a full transcript of the episode.
• Listen to Evan’s podcast, Very Expensive Maps, and check out the maps he makes.
• See Clinton's National Geographic Explorer award.
• Explore Cymone and Dr. Martin’s Black Towns & Settlements Project.

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