Interesting article, but I didn't follow the 'destroying local knowledge' part. "Since before even the arrival of the car, people have worried that maps sever

Interesting article, but I didn't follow the 'destroying local knowledge' part. "Since before even the arrival of the car, people have worried that maps sever us from real places, render the world untouchable, reduce it to a bare outline of Cartesian lines and intersections." I've never heard this before.