Analysis

April 5, 2021

Living Map is digitising the world around us

Specialist companies are beginning to develop maps of a sort that have never existed before. They are creating digital maps of the indoor world.


Jay Elwes

5 min read

Credit: Met, Living Maps

For as long as civilisations have existed, humans have mapped their surroundings. The earliest surviving example is the Babylonian Map of the World, a broken stone tablet dating from around 600 BC, depicting the course of the Euphrates. Maps have been integral to human progress. They have helped explorers and allowed for the development of trade and diplomacy.

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