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‘Basically Just Population Maps’

Published on 12 February 2016 by Jonathan Crowe
“Heatmap” by Randall Munroe (xkcd)

In response to The End of Maps in Seven Charts, Duncan Jackson writes to point out the above xkcd comic from 23 November 2012, which says something quite similar about maps that really just show population density.

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