Description

The list of border or territorial conflicts is long. Cartographers working at international organizations, global webmap providers like Google, and atlas editors struggle on how to map this phenomenon. All solutions followed still give some kind problems due to what we could call different perspectives. Some follow the official international recognized boundaries, others follow the actual situation on the ground, and especially the global webmap providers only show the perspective from the country where the user is looking from.

In this research we try to answer questions like: Is a neutral cartographic depiction of all these boundary perspectives a possibility? Can we develop and design a situation that would incorporate multiple viewpoints? Would the use of the ’toolkit’ of uncertainty visualizations be helpfull?

Objectives and Methodology

Neutral visualization of border conflicts

Further reading

References:

Headland, R. K. (2020) Territory and Claims in the Antarctic Treaty Region: A Disquisition on Historical and Recent Developments. Cartographic Journal vol 57, no. 2, p. 160-174. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.utwente.nl/10.1080/00087041.2019.1677035

background reading https://www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/
Links:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_border_conflicts