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Parts of theoretical cartography are model example how Information Theory Bandwagon [1] works: 'By the mid-1970s any historical account of the development of models of cartographic communication becomes unmanageable very largely because of their increasing popularity and the way in which authors making use of them learn and borrow ideas from one another. One commentator faced with the proliferation of these models is distressed by being 'awash in a sea of scientific-sounding terminology mostly pirated from other fields such as electrical engineering.' [2] [1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1056774 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1056774 [2] Christopher Board, "Cartographic Communication", Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 1981