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| | Seeing and Reading Maps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Seeing maps represent demographic data with a graded set of concrete signs, that is signs having visual properties--above all, area, in practice--homologous with, or mimetic of, their referents. |
 | | As Bertin (Graphics) notes, seeing maps serve viewers well both for ready perception of general tendencies among data and as decipherable, detailed record of the data. |
 | | As with seeing maps, the detailed recording of demographic data on reading maps can be deciphered for analytical purposes; in contrast to the marks on seeing maps, however, those on reading maps generally lack the Gestalt properties needed to foster holistic perception. |
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