How to Lie with Maps
Categories: Reference, Science & Math
Geographer Mark Monmonier explains how maps, which seem objective, always distort reality and can be used to mislead. He shows how choices about scale, projection, symbols and data can shape what readers see, whether by accident or by design in advertising, politics and propaganda. Updated for the age of digital and online mapping, the third edition teaches readers to look at maps critically and understand their limits.
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- Shane Parrish: “― We’ve written previously on the blog and in The Great Mental Models book about the map/territory divide. This book is a concrete explanation of how the representation of a thing can differ wildly from the thing itself.”