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Our friend Alejandro Polanco Masa is updating Maptorian<\/a> for 2020, and outlines some of the changes to the political map<\/a> that have taken place since 2014 that he needs to incorporate into his vector map product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our friend Alejandro Polanco Masa is updating Maptorian for 2020, and outlines some of the changes to the political map that have taken place since 2014 that he needs to incorporate into his vector map… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1327,339],"class_list":["post-1787818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","tag-borders","tag-maptorian","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3170,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/10\/a-primer-on-election-map-cartography\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787818,"position":0},"title":"A Primer on Election Map Cartography","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 October 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"With\u00a0less than two weeks before the 2016 U.S. presidential election,\u00a0it's time for a refresher on election map cartography, particularly in the context of U.S. presidential elections. 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