This is a paper thoroughly reviews the foundation, revolution, current states, and possible future of critical cartography. Crampton & Krygier started with the essential of critics, emphasize the scientific, political, and resistant nature of critiques. Then they continued to examining the evolution of how cartographic critique evolved and conflicted. At last, after summarized the current stage of critical cartography, they focused on the five possible areas that further critics on cartography may thrive: arts of mapping, everyday mapping, maps as resistance, map hacking, and theoretic critique.
To me, my interests on critical cartography focuses more towards the theoretic critiquing part. I do agree that all critiques essentially helps the development of a discipline, but theoretic critics might help the most. As critical cartographers critiquing and re-thinking Robinson’s modern cartography theory, they helps promote a paradigm shift, a new way of thinking in cartography, which changes the discipline from its very foundation. Also, as the theories in current cartography and GIScience becoming more diverse and seeking to explain complex phenomenons, the critics on theories helps reveal and understand the complexity behind previously complex topics, which is I perceive as the most fundamental meaning of geographic research.
Also, their interpretation on map artists is very intriguing, since art and science traditionally have different yet somehow interactive epistemology. It is interesting to see how artists will contributes their unique perspective and ideology into cartography, which is a discipline arguably started from arts and evolved into science, or in some case, it is still an art. At the end, cartography seeks to present knowledge of the world, there is good opportunities of getting inspiration from the world via critics.