[Ráfaga] #1874: droughts, memory, visual

[Jorge Sanz]

#1874: droughts, memory, visual

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 by Raf

* The European Drought Observatory publishes a vast quantity of
downloadable information about droughts, and for the first days of
July, it states that 45% of European territory is in warning
conditions and 13% under alert

https://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/edov2/php/index.php?id=1000

* A 2020 study indicates that using a GPS for navigation negatively
affects spatial memory, and the more the GPS is used, the biggest the
impact over time

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62877-0

* Visual Positioning Systems are associated naturally with Augmented
Reality as one of the bridges between inherited spatial topics like
maps, data, location, and world-building

https://worldbuilder.substack.com/p/location-in-the-visual-world

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