Quote Originally Posted by The Cartographist View Post
Ravells.
It is an interesting image, but I would hardly call it a map. It seems to me that it violates one or more of the Five Principles that were listed in your other post. It seems to me, as well, to be too abstract to be considered a "map" in any sense of the word that we think of one.
Well - I don't think it is any "worse" than many of the false colour maps out there. As Rav's pointed out, the lack of a legend/key makes it less useful in conveying information than it could be.

The original Wired post is here:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2...st-beauti.html

and it indicates that was made with:
colors correlating to geological materials and phenomena
-Rob A>