{"id":33,"date":"2016-01-27T21:12:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T02:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/?p=33"},"modified":"2016-01-29T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T15:54:04","slug":"the-swiss-cheese-map-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/2016\/01\/27\/the-swiss-cheese-map-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Swiss Cheese Map Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/files\/2016\/01\/download.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/files\/2016\/01\/download.jpeg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think Shari Motro did a great job explaining her point about map visuals and what to include or exclude when creating a usable\u00a0map. \u00a0In order to cleanly and efficiently display information, cartographers\u00a0must have\u00a0an element of style in their craft and avoid &#8220;chartjunk,&#8221; or excess detailing that can crowd a map. \u00a0Whether or not the mapmaker intends it, maps can have real world consequences and make forceful arguments.\u00a0 The gaudy &#8220;Swiss Cheese&#8221; map used in the 1995 Oslo II peace talks between Israel and Palestine illustrated how a simple difference in the way in which\u00a0a map\u00a0displays\u00a0data can portray an extremely different feeling to the reader. \u00a0In a situation like the volatile Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is extremely important that peace talks go over smoothly with little argument. \u00a0Later reworking the map aesthetically, not the data itself, proved to be much more helpful in later talks to show\u00a0the area in a more positive, uplifting\u00a0way. \u00a0I especially love how Motro equated a mapmaker with no sense of graphic design with a bad writer using\u00a0a word processor &#8211; both are useless because neither could\u00a0make\u00a0a practical product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Shari Motro did a great job explaining her point about map visuals and what to include or exclude when creating a usable\u00a0map. \u00a0In order to cleanly and efficiently display information, cartographers\u00a0must have\u00a0an element of style in their craft &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/2016\/01\/27\/the-swiss-cheese-map-reflection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment-3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}