A good short article about how people are telling stories with maps. This one makes explicit use of mapping as a story telling device. The map become part illustration / comic. Of course, maps can be used to tell much more subtle and implicit stories, simply by the way that they are formed and the choices for data represented. I'd love to see some sort of analysis of the inherent biases represented by Google/Yahoo/MSN maps... What stories are lurking beneath the substrate on which so many people are weaving their various stories? Is there a Decatur Projection sized problem with Google Maps?
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