A reference blog on mapping in the digital age. (Site of teacher)

Last updated on 12 May 2026

Digital map(s) is a teacher's site and a reference blog on mapping and geographic information in the digital age. A contributory site created by Sylvain Genevois, professor-researcher at the University of Réunion, which is full of useful information and resources for all those who are interested in maps from near or far.

A valuable resource for making, for example, Narrative Mapping but beyond reflect on the uses of maps and spatial data in research and education. Educating on the map necessarily involves information and digital image education and the Digital Mapping site(s) is working on this.

Training in the field of cartography

The Digital Mapping site(s) is very rich. The site is intended to provide resources in the field of geoweb, geomatics, digital mapping in the broad sense.

A search engine will allow you to find what you are looking for. The newsfeed that appears on the homepage is alive and updated regularly. The blog contains many resources and avenues of activity based on these current examples.

There is thus a detailed article on the survey data of the Pandora Papers. The eminently political object map states the article, which reproduces in particular a map representing the geographical distribution of the 336 politicians directly involved in these tax evasion cases.

Also in the news is another article which focuses on the data that make it possible to identify Which states have contributed the most to global warming in history?

Beyond this news where cartography and geographical data play an important role, the site has classified in a number of categories of useful and comprehensive enough to allow researchers, teachers or students to go further.

Tools, data, maps and atlases, geo-viusualisations … Each resource is presented and commented on to facilitate reading and use. By itself the sitography of the category "data" is worth the detour.

Tools to teach geography or history but not only

The site is intended, as you have understood, to provide resources in the field of geoweb, geomatics, digital mapping in the broadest sense. It also aims to provide pupils and teachers with tools and approaches to enable a critical approach to information in an increasingly geo-digital world.

For Sylvain Génevois, I quote: ‘Digital mapping is not just about geographers, but about everyone in their daily lives, whether it is using navigation or geolocation tools, consulting virtual globes, reading maps or data visualisations. Learning how to process and analyse geodata is now part of the basic skills to be acquired in the age of the Internet and digital technologies. The ambition to educate on the map, the image and the digital must make it possible to go beyond the sole framework of the teaching of history and geography and to affect media and citizenship education more broadly.” No better.

The author uses the blog Mapping(s) in initial education for university students (INSPE) but also in continuing education (internships for 1st and 2nd degree teachers).

It will also be useful for teachers looking for data sets, map backgrounds, map tools, or critical analyses on the challenges of open data, geolocation, etc.

A site on contributory and open cartography

The Digital Mapping(s) site is a contributory and open site. Proposals for contributions, reflections or critical analyses are welcome. In the cardboard of the projects, tutorials on taking charge are being created with pedagogical activities related to study topics in the school curricula.

To be followed, then.