BBC Beauty of Mapping  short video (2 mins:38 approximately.) from 2010 succinctly states the scope and the scale of why digital mapping matters and is part of where and why we are intrigued about all things mapped from the earliest to the newest.

A way of representing and visualising huge and complex data and making the numbers and patterns tell the user a visually inspired story.

There are many intriguing connections which are sparked from our exploration of maps and data visualisation specific to local social, family and ‘Big History’ projects.

This snippet of video serves to summarise why Mapping our past present and future helps us to gain new insights…