ABSTRACT
The Earth-observing computer platform Google Earth now has the ability to show a map of the United States with an application layer called FCCInfo activated. This chapter focuses on the nineteenth and early twentieth century maps of telegraphy, railroad, and radio networks to explore historical precursors to the Google Earth-FCCInfo interface and finds cartographic conventions for representing the modern infrastructures of transportation and telecommunication. It discusses the Google Earth's capacity for infrastructure mapping within the longer history and explains how the Earth-observing platform is used to communicate information about U. S. broadcast infrastructure. Google Earth-FCCInfo interface as a springboard for a phenomenological investigation and offers materialism's creative mediation of a broadcast infrastructure site approaching the technology in a proximate and embodied manner. The more ways in which infrastructures can be perceived, sensed, felt, and understood as part of life, the more potential there is for the public to reflect upon and intervene in their complex materialities and temporalities.
