Denis Cosgrove Reading

In today's society with the GPS most maps are coded space of maps that there isn't a real understanding by the map of what the space that I may be in is really like. The maps we live in today on the internet with googleearth we can have a coherent understanding of the space. It was interesting to see how maps have evolved over the years and centuries. I didn't know that maps had different ways of being produced than the typical map we are used to seeing today, they were much more ornate. It was interesting to learn how those ornate maps came to be obsolete and maps of statistics and scientific information. Coded maps were created for simplistic legibility. The abandonment of all ornate, detailed city views for scientific views can be a practical for a map. When I learned to drive I didn't know any streets, I knew landmarks, I enjoy a combination of map and landmark... the combination of the logical with the visual.