For mapmakers, what does ethics mean?

What is it about?

This paper responded to queries at a NACIS meeting on the nature of ethics and its applicability to working mapmakers who may feel queasy about an assignment but who need to take the job.

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Why is it important?

This paper began an exploration into everyday ethics for cartographers,demographers, geographers, graphic artists, statisticians, etc. It's an attempt to reframe ethics in a manner that is intelligeible to the non-professional and pertinent to the average person. It's a "ground-up" exploration whose final form is a 2917 book from MIT Press: Ethics in Everyday Life: Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury.