The Power of Maps by Denis Wood
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.
He demonstrates the realities that could not exist in the absence of maps like of property lines, taxation districts and voting rights. He asks, given every map has a point of view, whose interest does it serve? “The Power of Maps” strips maps we have known all our lives of their cloak of scientific objectivity. Maps have the power to change our world through the way we see our world.
Note: Mr. Wood is not ashamed of his vocabulary – keep your dictionary nearby or risk missing some important meaning! ( 
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