Maps seem to be everywhere since the growth of the Internet, but for production purposes, more attention has been given to visualization procedures, which raise methodological and epistemological questions that cover map-making. Visualization also uses complex, multidimensional, even massive data. The somewhat anarchic graphic semiotics has been reinvented since the emergence of a new occupation: designer-programmers. A promising space has been opened for a dialog where physicists, computer scientists and geographers discuss heuristic and epistemological advances in map-making and in visualization.
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