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    Digital twins and deep maps


    Kitchin, Rob and Dawkins, Oliver (2025) Digital twins and deep maps. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 50 (1). ISSN 0020-2754

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    Abstract

    Mapping is now thoroughly digital at all stages of production and maps are widely used in digital form. This digital turn has transformed the nature of mapping and maps. Maps need no longer be static representations, but rather constitute spatial media, providing an interactive, dynamic means for creating, discussing, and sharing spatial information and mediating spatial practices. This has included the development of 3D mapping, including nascent digital twins and digital deep maps. In this short paper, we reflect on our attempts to produce a 3D city information model for Dublin that acts as a basic digital twin, which we have also used to explore deep mapping, as well as map projecting data onto a printed 3D map model of the city. We consider what digital twins and deep maps mean for how we understand the nature of mapping, arguing that they produce a dyadic intertwining of map and territory; a literal, material expression of post‐representational, ontogenetic conceptions of mapping.
    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: 3D mapping; deep maps; digital twins; map projection; spatial media; virtual reality;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography
    Item ID: 19625
    Identification Number: 10.1111/tran.12699
    Depositing User: Prof. Rob Kitchin
    Date Deposited: 01 Apr 2025 10:22
    Journal or Publication Title: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
    Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19625
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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