{"id":265,"date":"2014-09-13T22:02:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T22:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2014\/09\/13\/maps-are-not-copies-they-are-projections-when\/"},"modified":"2014-09-13T22:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T22:02:15","slug":"maps-are-not-copies-they-are-projections-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2014\/09\/13\/maps-are-not-copies-they-are-projections-when\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Maps are not copies, they are projections\u2026 When drawing up a map, a cartographer must choose between zenithal, gnomonic, stereographic, orthographic, globular, conical, cylindrical, or sinusoidal modes of projections. Each of these brings with it as many disadvantages as benefits. Projections are not neutral, natural, or \u2018given\u2019: they are constructed, configured, underpinned by various\u2014and quite arbitrary\u2014conventions\u2026 And yet, explicitly or not, all maps carry with them a certain claim; that this one is somehow truer than the others with which it competes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Tom McCarthy, Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies<\/em><\/p>\n

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Maps are not copies, they are projections\u2026 When drawing up a map, a cartographer must choose between zenithal, gnomonic, stereographic, orthographic, globular, conical, cylindrical, or sinusoidal modes of projections. Each of these brings with it as many disadvantages as benefits. Projections are not neutral, natural, or \u2018given\u2019: they are constructed, configured, underpinned by various\u2014and quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-4h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":614,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/08\/26\/freakyfauna-maps-of-the-known-world-by-edrisi\/","url_meta":{"origin":265,"position":0},"title":"freakyfauna: Maps of the known\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"August 26, 2013","format":"gallery","excerpt":"freakyfauna: Maps of the known world by Edrisi (1154) and Fra Mauro (1459). 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