Provide examples of the way maps are helping local governments become more democratic.

Maps help local governments become more democratic by giving local governments are more precise spatial knowledge of the regions that they govern.

This also applies for national or federal governments. Maps are an increasingly important source of information for government at all levels, because they are a great tool to place all kinds of information about a region: demographic information, economic information, physical geography information, and so on.

doctrine that the us had the right to expand throughout north america.