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Evaluating Tile Grid Maps — Practitioner Survey

This short survey (about 5 minutes) asks about your experience with tile grid maps and which geographic qualities you consider most important when evaluating their quality. It is part of academic research to develop a standardized accuracy score for tile grid maps.

Background

Have you ever worked with tile grid maps —either creating, editing, or reviewing them?

Have you ever worked with tile grid maps —either creating, editing, or reviewing them?
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How often do you work with tile grid maps?

How often do you work with tile grid maps?
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Importance of evaluation criteria

When you look at a tile grid map, how important are these qualities to you? ⭐ = Not important at all ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ = Extremely important

Tiles that share a border in real life should also be neighbors in the grid (adjacency preservation)

Tiles that share a border in real life should also be neighbors in the grid (adjacency preservation)

A neighbor to the north should still appear above, not to the side (directional correctness)

A neighbor to the north should still appear above, not to the side (directional correctness)

Every real neighbor should appear somewhere in the grid neighborhood (no missing neighbors)

Every real neighbor should appear somewhere in the grid neighborhood (no missing neighbors)

Tiles shouldn't be touching in the grid if they don't share a border in reality (no false neighbors)

Tiles shouldn't be touching in the grid if they don't share a border in reality (no false neighbors)

The overall shape and outline of the region should be recognizable (shape similarity)

The overall shape and outline of the region should be recognizable (shape similarity)

Layout comparison

Which two tile grid maps do you think most accurately represent the original geography? (Zoom in on your screen to read the country names)

Which two tile grid maps do you think most accurately represent the original geography?
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Thank you for your time! 😍

Your responses will be used to calibrate default weights for an open-source tile grid map accuracy tool, and the results will be reported in aggregate in an academic paper.