Confronting the {quantum}
do maps
|visualize
|
or
|create
|
spatial reality & truth
Ian Muehlenhaus, PhD
Product Engineer @ Esri, Inc
Everything you think you know about what cartography is
and what maps do is
(possibly) wrong.
The First Rule of Science?
Destruction
is
progress.
God
does
play dice
(Sorry, Albert.)
Cartography and map agency are based on several debunked paradigms/assumptions.
False Assumption 1
Spatial data represent an objective reality
False Assumption 2
Maps visualize absolute, pre-existing spatial truths
False Assumption 3
Science helps us
interpret reality
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