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By Laura Bliss

November 20, 2024 at 5:00 PM EST

Note: This is the last edition of MapLab as a standalone newsletter. After today, MapLab readers will receive CityLab’s daily newsletter.
You can manage your newsletter preferences anytime at Bloomberg.com/newsletters. Read more from MapLab founder Laura Bliss below.

The best maps are dense and dazzling stories. Whether it’s getting lost in the bygone borders of a vintage globe, poring over shifts in voting patterns of a polarized nation, or zooming into hotspots for disease or disaster, maps can outdo words in compressing information. Done beautifully, they can draw in readers for hours.