How to Lie with Maps

Posted: May 29th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

The (excellent) Map Room has a review today on How to Lie with Maps written by Mark Monmonier.

“[b]ecause most map users willingly tolerate white lies on maps, it’s not difficult for maps also to tell more serious lies” (p. 1).

Relation to my thesis: This concept of white lies on maps tolerated by users can be inspiring on how to play with spatial uncertainty. Back in the days, Darrell Huff’s How to Lie with Statistics was inspiring to me. I would expect a similar relevance from How to Lie with Maps.


One Comment on “How to Lie with Maps”

  1. 1 Greg Laden said at 5:17 am on January 2nd, 2007:

    Thought you might enjoy this example. It is more a case of lying with the globe. The globe is accurate: It’s really just the angle one takes on things..

    Jolly ‘ol England