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cord-254456-d79z01jh	Juergens, Carsten	Trustworthy COVID-19 Mapping: Geo-spatial Data Literacy Aspects of Choropleth Maps	2020-10-23		.txt	text/plain	2540	155	56	title: Trustworthy COVID-19 Mapping: Geo-spatial Data Literacy Aspects of Choropleth Maps Since the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic is a global phenomenon, many scientists and research organizations create thematic maps to visualize and understand the spatial spread of the disease and to inform mankind. GIS and web-mapping technologies play an essential role to provide rapid visualization of the geo-spatial spread of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic (e.g. Zhou et al. There are many options to influence the information content and the appearance of a thematic map and its readability, e.g., by choosing colors, line styles, text styles, symbol styles or its scale (Juergens 2020) . This paper intends to raise the reader's awareness against the influencing factors that can distort the information content of choropleth map data. "[…] a strong Fig. 2 Thematic map of COVID-19 cases/100,000 inhabitants in Germany on July 6, 2020 based on states (left) and counties (right) (Robert Koch Institut 2020) (Legend shows color and value ranges per class).	./cache/cord-254456-d79z01jh.txt	./txt/cord-254456-d79z01jh.txt