Practice Ethical Cartography (7.5.4) - Cartography and Thematic Mapping

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Question 1.
What is ethical cartography?
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Think about the importance of transparency in data.
Question 2.
Name one principle of ethical cartography.
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Consider what it means to mislead people with data.
3Question 3.
What should cartographers avoid to maintain ethical standards?
- Data alteration
- Using colors
- Adding scale
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Think about how changing data can misinform.
4Question 4.
True or False: Maintaining source transparency is not necessary in ethical cartography.
- True
- False
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Consider why people need to know where data comes from.
Question 5.
Critically analyze a map that lacks source transparency. What implications might this have in a decision-making scenario?
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Reflect on how you determine the validity of what you see in maps.
Question 6.
Create a map displaying a random variable and indicate how you would communicate uncertainty and source.
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Consider how you would explain to others where your data originated.

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