On May 30, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Robert Hoekman Jr wrote:
A map of J.R.R. Tolkien's Shire is fictitious.
A map of Manhattan is not.
A map of Manhattan is documentation of a real place. Personas are
not documentation of real people — they're hybrid, man-made,
archetypal, representative descriptions that arebased on real people.
Uh-huh.
Except maps aren't true documentation of real places, since much of
the detail of the real places are left out of the maps. A map of
Manhattan may not show any of the buildings or contours of the city
and even may leave out important streets.
The cartographer abstracts the important content and intentionally
leaves out the rest. That's the secret behind good map design.
And this is just a game of semantics.
Where are we going with this?
Jared
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