ABSTRACT
Ethnographers have long used maps as part of their toolkit for understanding people and practices. These have come in all shapes and sizes and have had many uses, ranging from maps made directly by researchers and participants, to those maps that operate in the background, to help the ethnographer understand where they need to be and to identify which places and spaces are important to participants. However, in the past two decades, things have changed significantly. Digital and mobile mapping technologies are now prevalent throughout society, which has led ethnographers to find that there are new ways to understand people through maps, and new mapping practices to learn for themselves along the way. This chapter lays out these changes to ask what the proliferation of digital mapping technologies and subsequent modes of mobile mapping mean for ethnographers interested in how maps continue to shape social practices. It will provide a useful resource for ethnographers interested in maps, and for researchers interested in how maps shape everyday practices.
