Limfjorden

We have the context of how close places are to each other, what countries the cities are in

There are no country names, only the names of the capital cities, so if what you say is true, the user is required first to know

1. that the cities are in fact capitals
2. which countries the cities are the capitals of
3. the general size of Europe as whole to know distance between cities

Especially point one and two are not common knowledge. Most Europeans would not know that Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia, for instance. It could be easily fixed by changing “cities” to “capitals” in the legend. But I would still argue that the low amount of data does not warrant the map, if the purpose is to compare across cities.

Sidenote: What scholars and textbooks do you use for theory in the US?

I probably would not even make a map of the data in the first place. I would just have a bar chart like you drew, because the amount of data is so low, and their geographical position does not offer much additional information or context.

But most of this seems like it is about subjective tastes rather than peer-reviewed studies on what kind of map is more useful.

Funnily enough, I am actually taking a cartography class at uni right now, and a map (on the left) almost like this is in our textbook. The author then showed a redesign (on the right) where he uses columns for representing the statistics as bars instead of numbers.

I’m aware it’s not an exact 1-1 example, but I think you’ll agree that the one on the right is more successful in communicating the differences between states (which I am assuming is the purpose OP’s map as well). This book is as far as I know peer-reviewed and the most authoritative guide on map design in Denmark at least. The author Lars Brodersen is well-respected in his field. According to him, there are certain guidelines when it comes to visual design, that make for better, more useful maps.

Scrap the pie charts. It’s a lot easier to see the difference between 50 and 55% when it’s represented as the coloured part of a column representing 100% Pie charts only work when the difference are big enough.

This is a bad “map”. The pie charts add clutter to the image, and it’s not immediatly obvious how two cities compare. The country borders offer no additional information other than vague context for those who know what countries are located where. Since there is only one datapoint per country, it might as well have been a line of columns showing percentage of salary used by colouring part of the column red. The map medium does not help in anyway to provide the information.

feddit.dk was unaffected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

… because a Danish politician is talking about “remigrating” 50.000-100.000 people.

Die Dänische Regierung repräsentiert nicht die meinungen der durchschnitlicher Dänes. In nur ein Monat war 50.000 Unterschriften eingesammelt, und ein Bürgervorschlag gegen Chatkontrolle wurde der Regierung gemacht. Aber sie hören nicht die bevölkerung zu.

PS: Entschuldigen bitte grammatischen und sprachlichen fehlern. Deutsch ist nicht meine Muttersprache:)

FYI: It’s an AI Image