Geography

Readings due before class on Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Required

• Chapter 10 in Alberto Cairo, The Truthful ArtAlberto Cairo, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Berkeley, California: New Riders, 2016).
  
  
• Why all world maps are wrong
• Map projections
• Gall-Peters Projection
• When Maps Lie
• These Twisted Maps Prove That America Isn’t a Red Country
• How children lost the right to roam in four generationsDaily Mail warning, though.
  
  

Questions to reflect on

• How can you know if a map projection is truthful or misleading?
• What’s wrong (or not wrong) with using points on maps? Choropleths? Lines?