Week 11: Cartography
 Prof. Jack Reilly
 Fall 2026

Due This Week: Problem Set 9
Lecture: An Introduction to Cartography
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Readings & Reference Material
•	Core Reading
–	DV, ch 7
–	“Color, Classification, and Choropleth Symbolization”
•	Cartography Illustrations
–	Why all world maps are wrong
–	How to avoid being fooled by bad maps
–	Projection comparison
–	The True Size Of
•	Reference Materials
–	Field, Cartography. A foundational guide to cartography with a computer.
–	There are any number of books through which you can get a feel for good cartography (a good atlas, for instance). Here are some more thematic favorites of mine:
•	Jenkins & Keal, The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park
•	Banis & Shore, Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas
•	Shore & Banis, Upper Left Cities: A Cultural Atlas of San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle
•	Hatfield, Kempson, & Ross, Seattleness: A Cultural Atlas
•	Archer et al, Atlas of American Politics, 1960-2000
•	Archer et al, Atlas of Nebraska
•	Schulten, Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America
•	Thames & Hudson, The Atlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live
–	See next week for geographic data materials
Due Next Week: Problem Set 10