Judgmental Maps

One of the first “grown-up” things I remember learning as a teenager is that maps are never unbiased, that they always represent the predilections of their cartographers—or their cartographers’ sponsors. You can’t create a flat map without distorting proportions and therefore misrepresenting the relative sizes of continents and countries, for instance, and even globes imply…

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