Mapping COVID-19: How web-based maps contribute to the infodemic

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Abstract

A proliferation of web-based maps have appeared depicting many different aspects of the spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). In this commentary, we consider the usage of web-based mapping during the COVID-19 pandemic and argue that web maps have been widely misused for delivering public information on this fast moving, epidemiologically complex, and geographically unbounded process.

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Journal

Title: Dialogues in Human Geography

Abbreviated Title: Dialogues in Human Geography

Publisher: SAGE Publications

ISSN (Print): 2043-8206

ISSN (Electronic): 2043-8214

Publication date Created: July 2020

Publication date (Electronic): June 23 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Volume: 10

Issue: 2

Pages: 265-270

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[1 ]Maynooth University, Ireland

[2 ]Florida International University, USA

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DOI: 10.1177/2043820620934926

SO-VID: a79e47dc-2531-4bf3-93fa-e0a02023f09f

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