Revising the Map: Modulated Mapping and The Spatial Interface is an essay by Jeremy Hight published in the most recent issue of the Parsons Journal for Information Mapping.
The abstract for the text:
The map can be active, malleable, open source fed, and even, in a sense, intelligent and able to adapt. The possibility also exists for this map to have a function that based on key words will search databases on-line to find maps, animations, histories and stories etc to place within it for your study and engagement. The map is thus a platform and yet is active. Community is possible as people can communicate graphically in works placed on the map and in building mode in the tool. All the tropes of locative media are to be in a mapping system of channels of augmentation and a spatial net. The software by design will allow development on the map and communication like programs such as second life but in mapping itself.
You can download a PDF of the essay from a related post on Jeremy's blog.
