Has there been a geographical trend in the development of newspaper maps?
	The fourth aspect, the regional trends, has already partly been described in table 2. Within the scale aspect it was analysed whether a spatial shift had occurred. Generally this proved to be a nice case of the ‘distance decay’ function: the further away from the Netherlands the smaller the number of maps. Table 4 gives some further information:
	Table 4 - Regional trends of the national newspapers in the Netherlands 1988-1996 (number of maps)
	Area 1988 1992 1996 Netherlands 58 82 102 Europe (without NL) 51 125 126 Asia 21 70 64 Africa 12 25 58 North America 15 19 26 South America 7 9 15 Oceania 6 5 13 World 19 13 28 Outerspace - - 11         Total 143 348 413
	Final Remark