Technology has been increasing its role in how people conceptualize and move through space. With applications such as Google Maps becoming increasingly common for daily living-people are changing the way they think about and interact with the world around them. Through the next year I will be diving into this conversation feet first and, through the SIFP, will explore ways that cartographers and geographers can shift their methodologies to encompass people of all socioeconomic statuses.

If you haven’t thought much about maps before- check out this video where Hank Green shares some reasons why maps and spatial thinking deserve some special attention.