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1. Great book for understanding how maps convey information
   I got this book for a class and surprisingly the book teaches a lot more than just learning how maps work.
   Highly recommend this book if you want to learn how people use maps to persuade people, change how they view the world, practices to avoid/prevent miscommunication, and various methods of communication.

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2. Great for GIS
   I ordered this for my Masters course and the book is excellent and came in great condition.

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3. Given that people are drawing new MAPS now for Broadband services, and Gerrymandering Politics.
   A must read if you want to know how maps can be manipulated.
   Maps provide information, but they can lie.

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4. Was perfect for school
   Came in a timely fashion. It was exactly what I was looking for.

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5. Nice
   Good

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6. Ultimately kind of dull.
   I’d heard of this book, wanted to read it…but when I did, I found it slightly dull. Just less “sexy” than the title implies.

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7. Hints at, but doesn’t cover, “How Not to Be Lied to With Maps”
   If you’ve ever been tasked with making a decision that relied even partly on a map, you need this book. Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, an expert on cartography, explains (sometimes in precise, mathematical detail) how maps are used to manipulate opinion, sway decision-makers, and prevent potential home-buyers from ever knowing they might be purchasing a house next to a SuperFund site.
   Clear examples, often with side-by-side comparisons, help Monmonier make his points and demonstrate their validity. He shows how aerial photography can result in unreliable maps, how prohibitive maps play a part in our everyday lives, and how maps have been used (for a long time) as propaganda — a simple, bold arrow can be powerful.
   While I’d have to study this book to benefit fully from it, I believe I’ve gained enough insight from it to eye all the maps I see from now on with a bit of healthy skepticism: what are they trying to accomplish with this map? How have they translated raw data into images? Have they retained the accuracy (as well as possible) in that translation?
   The book missed a five-star rating because while I understood the points he was making, I wasn’t as sure I’d be able to make use of them in the way intended. For example, his illustrations (2.13 and 2.14) showing how much more accurate graduated point symbols are (in one case) than a gray-tone map are clear. What isn’t as clear is how I’m supposed to identify when I’m looking at the wrong display of data on a map. In other words, if I’m shown 2.14, how am I to know I’m not seeing data as well as I would if I saw 2.13? This is likely a logical deduction or perhaps there was further explanatory discussion I missed, but the point wasn’t firmly established for me.
   If there’s a fourth edition, it might be helpful for people like me to have an additional section on identifying bad maps. For example, if I were only shown the left image in Figure 3.9, how would I know there’s an alternative, without the accompanying data? After all, most of us don’t see the data used in creating images such as this one–we only see the results of someone else’s work. In this case, the information is more useful to the budding cartographer than lay map user. An example that uses something like Figure 3.9 with a discussion of how to spot this problem when it’s presented to us and how to determine what it should look like would take this book from “How to Lie With Maps” to “How Not to Be Lied to With Maps” — a key distinction, and perhaps the reason the book didn’t go further than it did.
   Even so, from displays of county-by-county election votes to maps of the Russian-Ukrainian territory swaps, I’ll be watching much more closely than I was before I read this book.

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8. Should be an accompanying book to “How to Lie with Statistics”
   Like “How to Lie with Statistics”, this book opens your eyes on how maps can be misleading.

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9. A obra te ensina como um mapa pode te induzir ao erro, por limitações técnicas, ou ser criado intencionalmente para manipulação política, militar etc. O livro parte do básico da Cartografia, de como um mapa funciona e suas limitações, chegando a argumentos e exemplos reais de engano por eles.

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10. Fascinating. Some very good insights. The book is quite American-centric but this did not prove to be an issue. Contained some very thought provoking things, which despite being a geography teacher for many years and ‘into’ maps and mapping, I had not considered.

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11. Llego muy rápido y en perfecto estado, como recién impreso.

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12. Excelente

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13. Flawless delivery, a book that is a must have for anyone studying cartography/GIS

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