Jaak Laineste <jaak.laineste <at> gmail.com> writes: > I don't really see how someone can even have the idea (or argument) > that map is just a database of facts. > > I'd suggest a simple technical test for "is X an art or fact". > 1. ask two persons to create the X. > 2. store it to a digital file, and make diff of the files. > > Only if you can get "no differences" then this was a pure fact. I am > sure that mapping (like e.g. photography) will fail the test, even > without trying it out. I like this test because it will make things easy. No fuzzy shades of grey like some Richard is suggesting. Can you give an example of a thing that is done by a human being and that is not art by this definition?
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