Digital Cartography: How does recent technology impact our understanding of the White Mountains

The digital age has ‘opened our eyes’ to a spatial realm that can render and reimagine in ways that defy our predecessors. Larry Garland, who established AMC’s digital cartography program in 1996 and has served as staff cartographer ever since, tells the story of how satellite and aerial imagery, GPS, Lidar, 3D terrain models, and crowdsourcing on social media have reshaped our world – or at least our understanding of it.