Source: How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design (1995), p. 1
“Cartography is about representation. This statement may seem obvious, but it has been overlooked in our search for organizing principles for the field. Rather than restricting research in cartography to maps that present well-defined messages (and suggesting a single, map-engineering approach to improving the transmission of these messages, as the communication approach did), attention to maps as spatial representation expands the field.”
Source: How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design (1995), p. 1
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