How to Lie with Maps¶
Monmonier, M. (1991). How to Lie with Maps. University of Chicago Press.
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Primes¶
- Calibrated Rule versus Moving World
- In cartography and navigation, a map is a rule for the territory, and a map of a changing territory goes stale — roads move, coastlines erode, borders shift — so the navigator working from an old map drives into a closed road.
This sourceTreats a map as a fitted representation of a territory that goes stale as the territory changes. (Publisher: University of Chicago Press.)
- In cartography and navigation, a map is a rule for the territory, and a map of a changing territory goes stale — roads move, coastlines erode, borders shift — so the navigator working from an old map drives into a closed road.
- Reification
- The implicit faithfulness claim is that the map represents the territory under that convention and for that purpose. Reification is the identification act plus atrophy of the audit trail: a reader forgets the projection was a choice made for navigation and reads Greenland as genuinely comparable in size to Africa — treating a projection-induced distortion as a fact about the geography.
This sourceShows how projection-induced distortions and cartographic conventions are misread as facts about geography.
- The implicit faithfulness claim is that the map represents the territory under that convention and for that purpose. Reification is the identification act plus atrophy of the audit trail: a reader forgets the projection was a choice made for navigation and reads Greenland as genuinely comparable in size to Africa — treating a projection-induced distortion as a fact about the geography.
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