Mapping COVID-19: How web-based maps contribute to the infodemic. Issue 2 (July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mooney, Peter; Juhász, Levente
• Is Part Of: Dialogues in human geography. Volume 10:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 265
• Page End: 270
• Publication Date: 2020-07
• Subjects: COVID-19 -- infodemic -- misinformation -- pandemic -- web mapping; Human geography -- Periodicals; Human ecology -- Periodicals; Environmental ethics -- Periodicals; 304.205
• DOI: 10.1177/2043820620934926
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2043-8206

Abstract

A proliferation of web-based maps have appeared depicting many different aspects of the spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). In this commentary, we consider the usage of web-based mapping during the COVID-19 pandemic and argue that web maps have been widely misused for delivering public information on this fast moving, epidemiologically complex, and geographically unbounded process.