Describe how maps may present a biased perspective, using specific examples.?

Question

Describe how maps may present a biased perspective, using specific examples.

Answer 1

well usually maps showthe country in wich it was made in the centre of the map. making foreign maps look 'weird'.

secondly, the earth is a sphere, and a map is a square. trying to fit the surface of a sphere onto a square map is hard. youre going to have to stretch out bits of land near teh poles, and squeese land together at the equator.

for this reason, africa always looks much smaller on a map than it does on a globe and russia looks far larger than it actually is. This give a bias for space and country size.

Answer 2

One example regards Cyprus, and how Turkey views the island versus how the world recognizes Cyprus. Most maps (at least the ones I have) show Cyprus as an entire island-nation, as the world recognizes, but have dotted lines that show the area occupied and claimed by Turkey. Turkey claims the northern section of the island as their own; and although I don't have any Turkish maps, I'm willing to bet that their maps show their claims more clearly than ours.

Another example is how the Palestinians view their "homeland" as the entire of Israel. Not only does this highlight their bias, it highlights their refusal to negotiate and adopt a two-state solution.

Answer 3

on a two dimensional map, Greenland is often portrayed as almost being the size of africa and the map is often altered so that part of russia is cut off and shown on the other side of the map.

Answer 4

It all depends on the Judge