Not simply is it easy to lie with ...

Not simply is it easy to lie with maps, it's essential. To portray meaningful

relationships for a compages three-dimensional world on a flat sheet of
paper or a video riddle a map must distort reality [Monmonier 1991]

Abstraction is necessary to cope with the complexity of the real world. All
abstraction, however, introduces uncertainty into our analysis and policy
formation [MacEachren 1994]

No map of any phenomenon can entirely represent multi-scale complexity, temporal dynamics, or the uncertainty that is always associated with a value at a mapped point. Indeed, the above quotations remind us that maps inevitably lie