"Although cartographic journals have been rigorously reviewing software for nearly a decade, the profession today seems as powerless against stupidly designed software as it was against the flagrant misuse of the Mercator projection."
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This chapter is based on Monmonier's keynote address in the "1995 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing"
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