{"id":1807063,"date":"2022-04-26T18:46:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T22:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1807063"},"modified":"2022-04-26T18:46:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T22:46:54","slug":"strange-maps-on-perception-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/04\/strange-maps-on-perception-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Maps on Perception Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over on Strange Maps, which like this here site is still a going concern, Frank Jacobs has a nice writeup of the history of perception maps<\/a>. These are maps that provide a skewed or exaggerated view, usually of the United States, that favours their preferred part of it. The best known is Saul Steinberg\u2019s 1976 New Yorker<\/em> cover (\u201cView of the World from 9th Avenue\u201d) but there were antecedents. Frank covers the examples I mentioned in these previous entries: McCutcheon\u2019s View<\/a>; McCutcheon\u2019s 1908 Cartoon<\/a>. Plus a few others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over on Strange Maps, which like this here site is still a going concern, Frank Jacobs has a nice writeup of the history of perception maps. 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They effectively leverage patterns of human perception to present information dense but readily comprehensible maps. 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