{"id":1827391,"date":"2024-02-11T17:37:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1827391"},"modified":"2024-02-11T17:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T22:37:54","slug":"the-opposite-of-cartographic-generalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/02\/the-opposite-of-cartographic-generalization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opposite of Cartographic Generalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Every Map Has This Tiny Australian Town\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b376pe7LM1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b376pe7LM1E\">the above video<\/a>, the Ticket to Know YouTube channel looks at the idea of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cartographic_generalization\">cartographic generalization<\/a>\u2014where a map at smaller scale must necessarily remove detail to preserve legibility, to the extent that cities with very large populations (like Baltimore, Guangzhou or Yokohama) get left off the map because they\u2019re near even larger or more significant cities get left off the map. As well as its opposite: where tiny population centres get put on the map because they\u2019re in empty spaces (which maps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/tag\/horror-vacui\/\">have always hated<\/a>). His example is Alice Springs; mine would have been a Canadian Arctic settlement like Churchill, Manitoba, population 870, which tends to appear even on globes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the above video, the Ticket to Know YouTube channel looks at the idea of cartographic generalization\u2014where a map at smaller scale must necessarily remove detail to preserve legibility, to the extent that cities with&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/02\/the-opposite-of-cartographic-generalization\/\">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":[],"class_list":["post-1827391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-cartography","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":513340,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/12\/a-book-roundup-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1827391,"position":0},"title":"A Book Roundup","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 December 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The Routledge Handbook Out last month, the expensive, 600-page\u00a0Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography\u00a0(Routledge). Edited by Alexander J. Kent (who co-wrote\u00a0The Red Atlas) and Peter Vujakovic, the book \"draws on the wealth of new scholarship and practice in this emerging field, from the latest conceptual developments in mapping and advances\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/social-life-of-maps-142x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/social-life-of-maps-142x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/social-life-of-maps-142x150.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/social-life-of-maps-142x150.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/social-life-of-maps-142x150.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/social-life-of-maps-142x150.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1787547,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/08\/cartographic-beasts-of-north-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":1827391,"position":1},"title":"Cartographic Beasts of North America","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 August 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Cartographic Beasts of North America is an interactive story map from the Harvard Map Collection. It zooms in on various mythical and real creatures embellishing a 19th-century copy of a 17th-century map of North America, ranging from cows and beavers (real) to hippocampi and manitous (um, not). 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