Maps communicate meaning to the practices and experiences of navigation in everyday life. This is ever more the case in a world where GPS, geo-spatial and locative mapping technology has become embedded in more devices. And yet such mediations are not neutral. Rather, they are entangled with cultural and political practices, and increasingly with the accumulation of spatial big data. Put together, these elements have an impact on how our experiences and understanding of the world are formed and on how the power of maps is exercised and experienced. This paper draws from an ethnographic study of everyday map use in London to demonstrate how some of these impacts mediate and shape practices of urban navigation. The paper contends that navigational mapping practices are contextual, political and increasingly practices of data collection.

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导航制图实践：上下文，政治，数据

地图将意义传达给日常生活中的导航实践和经验。在GPS，地理空间和位置地图技术已嵌入到更多设备中的世界中，情况尤其如此。但是，这种调解不是中立的。相反，它们与文化和政治实践纠缠在一起，并且越来越与空间大数据的积累纠缠在一起。这些要素加在一起对我们如何形成对世界的经验和理解以及对地图的功能如何行使和体验产生影响。本文摘自一项关于伦敦日常地图使用的人种学研究，以展示其中一些影响如何影响和塑造城市导航的实践。本文认为导航制图实践是上下文，政治以及越来越多的数据收集实践。