- Who created the map and when? [by Lindsay Poirier]
- How is the individual or organization funded?
- How often is the map updated? Who updates the map?
- What does the map aim to show?
- Where is your attention first drawn when reading the map? Where is this geographically? What's going on there?
- What does the map seem to communicate? Urgency? Progress?
- What conclusions can you draw from reading the map on its surface?
- Describe the scale of the map.
- How would you characterize the map projection of the base map? (See __https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections__)
- What features are displayed on the base map? Roads? Geographic features? Businesses?
- How is data displayed on the map? As polygons? Coordinates? Clusters? A heat map? Other?
- What colors and shapes are used on the map?
- What is the range of data displayed on the map? How is the range labeled? Into how many intervals is the data divided?
- How is the data quantified? (See __http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/mapping/symbols-and-styles/data-classification-methods.htm__)
- What data sources were used in the map?
- Where did this data come from?
- How was the data collected?
- If the data comes from multiple sources, describe how the data was coordinated onto a single map. What standards/units were used to get the data sources to communicate? How are multiple data sources displayed on the map?
- What file types are these data sources? GIS? XML? KML?
- Is metadata about the data sources made available with the map? What is included in this metadata?
- Into what categories is the data divided?
- How are missing data or null values displayed on the map?
- Which coordinate reference system does the data/map use?
- What mapping software was used to create the map?
- Does anything seem off on the map? Is anything surprising? Why?
- Describe at least three phenomena that the map cannot capture, based on its design, categorization, or the limits of the data.
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