A Response to Denil's Accusations
/Readers of the open-access journal Cartographic Perspectives will be aware of a spat I have been having with Mark Denil, who seems to have been mightily insulted by my ideas. Anyway, the lasted round in the debate has appeared as a preprint for CP 106, which will appear later this year:
https://cartographicperspectives.org/index.php/journal/article/view/1981
This latest essay—“A Response to Denil (2024)”—responds to several mischaracterizations of my work, and myself, that Denil made in CP 104. In my response, I focus on Denil’s impropriety and I try not to belabor the points. I will continue to address the actual subject of dispute (being clear about our assumptions about the natures of the things we call maps) in my several outstanding writing projects. These are far more enjoyable (even the work of cutting 40% from the current book manuscript) than responding specifically to Denil’s accusations.