What?
What indicator is being mapped?
Geography can make patterns visible. Maps help us see where differences occur.
But a map can show us a pattern without automatically explaining it.
A table tells us values. A map can help us see geographic patterns, concentrations, gradients and differences between places.
Where are the values higher?
Where are they lower?
Are there clusters or gradients?
Do neighboring places look similar?
What happens when we change the geographic scale?
What indicator is being mapped?
Which population does the indicator describe?
Which year or period does the map represent?
Was the value observed, estimated or modelled?
Is uncertainty reported?
Read the indicator, definition, unit, population, year and source.
Look for geographic differences without immediately explaining them.
Describe where values are higher, lower, clustered or changing.
Ask what might explain the pattern and what evidence is still missing.
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