"In generalizing lies the difficulty of scientific map-making, for it no longer allows the cartographer to rely merely on objective facts but requires him to interpret them subjectively. To be sure the selection of the subject matter is controlled by considerations regarding its suitability and value, but the manner in which this material is to be rendered graphically depends on personal and subjective feeling. But the latter must not predominate: the dictates of science will prevent any erratic flight of the imagination and impart to the map a fundamentally objective character in spite of all subjective impulses. It is in this respect that maps are distinguished from fine products of art. Generalized maps and, in fact, all abstract maps should, therefore, be products of art clarified by science."
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Max Eckert, "On the Nature of Maps and Map Logic," in: Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Volume 40, (1908), p. 347; Cited in: McMaster, Robert Brainerd, and K. Stuart Shea. "Generalization in digital cartography." Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 1992.
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