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Bush on imagined public use of GPS; examine discursive commitments of grassroots mapping in its values, beliefs, and practices; delve into the work of each of the aforementioned communities through participant observation; and summarize responses to the project’s research questions while specifying what one can gain from seeing maps as ecologies. Accordingly, I argue that mapping merits fuller explorations in terms of discourse and practice; human and nonhuman production; and different space-times in contribution. This is needed to complicate the increasingly “living” nature of maps; the development of the infrastructures, policies, and technologies underpinning nonexpert-produced maps; and inventive use of maps towards matters of the public sphere. 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