“…However, maps often contain errors; people with individual positionalities and epistemologies, who undergo interrelated processes and negotiations, create them (Elwood, 2009; Kennedy et al, 2016; Pavlovskaya, 2018; Vaughan, 2018). The database, the missing relevant data, who is included or excluded in the information, and the editing details involve crucial decisions in a map’s final design (Pavlovskaya and St. Martin, 2007; Ricker et al, 2020). They manifest power and authority over the truth, which offers direct and indirect messages through representations and symbols (Wood, 1992; Pickles, 1995; MacEachren, 2004).…”