Feminist cartography and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on gender equality: Emotional responses to three thematic maps.

Keywords: affect; cartography; emotion; thematic maps; cartographie; émotion; cartes thématiques EN affect cartography emotion thematic maps FR cartographie émotion cartes thématiques 184 198 15 06/04/20 20200601 NES 200601 Introduction As representations of spatial data, maps can support productive access to information and knowledge construction (MacEachren and Kraak [32]), and may draw in readers imaginatively and emotionally (Aitken and Craine [1]). Data and maps The first author used one dataset to create the three maps: a choropleth, a contiguous cartogram, and a repeating icon tile map (see Figures -). The user was asked to take a minute to explore the map before completing the two data-related map interpretation tasks below the map image. The tile map Despite the distortions to geography and topology in the tile map, the average success rate across the two tasks was highest for this map type, at 97% (compared to 94% for both the choropleth and cartogram). [Extracted from the article]