Thinking in maps: from the Lascaux caves to knowledge graphs

In my previous post, I described Kevin Lynch’s five-part structure of how people form mental maps and navigate the geographic space of cities. Lynch’s research suggested that people form mental maps with five basic features in order to navigate: boundaries (such as water lines, freeways, and walls); regions (such as neighborhoods); paths; landmarks... See more

I started to consider strategy in terms of these five factors. I understood our purpose, or at least I thought I did, but what about landscape? Normally in military conflicts or even in games like chess we have some means of visualising the landscape through a map, whether it’s the more geographical kind that we are familiar with or an image of the... See more

It has been said that making sense of a situation i n-volves fitting its elements into some kind of structure that links them together (Kle in, Phillips, Rall, and Peluso, 2007), such as a story, a map, a script or a plan. That when people make sense of stimuli they do so by placing them into some kind of framework which allows them to, “Comprehend... See more

One to One: On maps, cartography and our relationship with geographical enquiry over time stretching from ancient Babylon to GIS software. With increasingly sophisticated tools to build maps, "we have the means to comprehend the future.

"We are each at the centre of our own map... We are all innate mapmakers... maps [are the] mediators between an in... See more