Abstract
The age of ‘Big Data’ and rapid online publishing brings with it a new need for verifying and understanding digital media. Cartographers are interested in the analysis of maps published online with regards specifically both to their adherence to established cartographic techniques and to identifying innovative approaches to geographic visualization. But traditional manual cartographic analysis methods, based solely on inspecting a map as an image, are limited; they can neither keep up with the volume of new maps coming online every day, nor answer all questions about the process of creation of the map. This paper proposes a novel approach to analysing maps which takes into account the source code of the cartographic program producing the map image. It is argued that such a method can surpass manual analysis in both its potential to facilitate semi- or fully automated processes as well as the depth of insight that the method is able to give into the complete socio-technical assemblage of a digital map artefact.
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