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Research Article

Informative cartographic communication: a framework to evaluate the effects of map types on users’ interpretation of COVID-19 geovisualizations

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Pages 257-274 | Received 01 Jan 2022, Accepted 01 Dec 2022, Published online: 21 Feb 2023

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