Welcome to Mapeye
Mapeye is a community mapping project that encourages public cartography. The project seeks to voice thoughts and feelings about familiar places by engaging with local people and sharing local knowledge.
July 18, 2007
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What are Maps?
Denis Cosgrove defined mapping thus:a graphic register of correspondence between two spaces, whose explicit outcome is a space of representation (______)to map is one or the other to take the measure of the world and more than merely to take it to figure the measure so taken in such a way that it may be communicated between people, places, or times.
Functions of Maps
They are created to serve a purpose - to declare ownership, as aids to navigation, political propaganda, to plan invasions,to describe or hide the physical landscape. Maps are social constructs, no matter how pure or innocent a map seems, it is nevertheless a product of the culture which produces it.
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