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Archive for April 2013

Why are choropleth Mercator maps bad? Because we said so.

12 April 2013 tagged choropleth, map projections, mercator with 2 comments

The other day I was speaking to a non-map person about the problems with choropleth mapping on the Mercator projection and went looking for a link to something that could explain it more clearly than my bumbling self. It became a familiar exercise, because I’ve done this before: there’s hardly anything out there on the […]

Free as in painstaking cartography labor

10 April 2013 with 8 comments

There are ways in which I think cartography is an under-appreciated and poorly understood field, some of which are enumerated in occasional rants on the Axis Maps blog and elsewhere. But these are usually philosophical or academic matters, and as someone who is making a career of cartography, increasingly I’ve been trying to offer this […]