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Friday, March 29, 2024
Books, Films / June 8, 2010
The Power of Maps

Denis Wood takes us into a place most are never aware exists, as if to give us the world through the eyes of a map. Oh yes, we read about projections and scales and the minutia that seasons the conversation of professional cartographers. But more, we also are brought (dragged if reluctant) to the realization that every map has an opinion, a point of view. He doesn’t stop there. He continues until his point is made that everyman, in a map making world, is or ought to be, a map maker.