Mapping boundaries

Dutch-German border

Objective:

Neutral visualization of border conflicts
the Arctic claims

Description:

The list of border or territorial conflicts is long. Cartographers working at international organizations, global webmap providers like Google, and atlas editors struggle on how to map this phenomenon. All solutions followed still give some kind problems due to what we could call different perspectives. Some follow the official international recognized boundaries, others follow the actual situation on the ground, and especially the global webmap providers only show the perspective from the country where the user is looking from.

In this research we try to answer questions like: Is a neutral cartographic depiction of all these boundary perspectives a possibility? Can we develop and design a situation that would incorporate multiple viewpoints? Would the use of the ’toolkit’ of uncertainty visualizations be helpfull?

The Arctice claims

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