This map of The World’s Newspapers * has some nice things going for it:
The first thing that we notice is that it isn’t over-styled. All the blue tones are muted, the red circles don’t have any casings (they stand out enough on their own without being outlined), there aren’t extraneous details like ocean colors or labels, and the authorship information and date are readily available.
It appears as though the mappers decided not to delineate each county with an outline, though I think that they might have done well to have considered doing so. It’s odd that only the No Data countries have outlines. Other than that, seems like a nice, simple, effective map for it’s purpose, audience and medium.
*By Dr. Mark Graham, Scott A. Hale and Monica Stephens in collaboration with Dr Corinne M. Flick and the Convoco Foundation.
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