posted by devonwhittle on Jun 29, 2008
When good maps go bad
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How maps make things look worse than they are. It’s all a problem of scale. For example, try to show all the debris floating around earth - most of which is very small compared to the field of vision you need to cover. So each dot you put on the map, though it may correspond to only a small piece of garbage, looks like a massive island of rubbish - making the earth look positively surrounded by debris.
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