I like the idea of using different legend options - that would be a really cool idea for a psychology class. I feel that I've been exposed to that exercise at some point in time. Maybe it was during my cartography class back in 2002..
At any rate, to Mike's point - lying with maps is a long practiced craft. http://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Maps-Mark-Monmonier/dp/0226534219. Being a sloppy mapmaker and not scaling a legend correctly is also something to consider. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Livni Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 9:12 AM To: SteveC Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Geowanking] The Geography of Jobs Radius vs Area is interesting for sure, but I think he may have been pointing out they had 10k vs 100k options for the optimists vs pessimists amongst us to choose from (or other way round?). Maybe an interesting psych experiment would be to make maps with different legend options -- most will notice only one -- and ask people what they think the map showed :) -Josh On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:43 AM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: On 8 May 2009, at 00:49, Michal Migurski wrote: On May 7, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Catherine Burton wrote: Nothing says well-conveyed information like a good map: http://tipstrategies.com/archive/geography-of-jobs/ Ruh-roh: http://mike.teczno.com/img/jobs-gained-jobs-lost.png you're pointing out it seems to be radius rather than area based? ---------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- [email protected] 415.558.1610 _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org Best Steve _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
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