![]() ![]() Maps that give a drawn representation of the built environment, coastlines, and roadways from the god’s-eye perspective present discontinuities by marking spaces in separation to each other, images of territory, and fixing of space to territorial bounds ( Roy, 2006, p. While skyscrapers and airflight have given rise to the many occasions on which the average subject can view the world from this above view perspective, it is the sharing of satellite imagery through near-seamless interwoven tapestries of terrain, overlaid by maps and utilized with geolocational direction-finding and mapping applications (as well as consumer advice in terms of nearby spaces in which to eat, shop, buy accommodation, or otherwise purchase commodities) that has integrated the god’s-eye view into the everyday experience of contemporary digital subjectivity. ![]() Google Earth and Google Maps present depictions of our everyday world space, our cities, towns, roads, forests, buildings, roofs, and oceans from the god-like perspective of/from above. Rob Cover, in Digital Identities, 2016 3.1 Viewing Ourselves from Above
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