Saved by Anne-Laure Le Cunff and
Thinking in maps: from the Lascaux caves to knowledge graphs
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... See more
"We are each at the centre of our own map... We are all innate mapmakers... maps [are the] mediators between an... See more
Weidenfeld & Nicolson • You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World
attempts at knowledge representation
left: word-concepts, ross quillian (1967)
right: the tree of nature and logic, ramon llull (13th century) https://t.co/5Tne7gjbHE
A map, in other words, is an arrangement of symbols into a system of meaning — and we use maps because we understand the language of signs that undergirds them. If the mapping of space was a human invention, she explained, one could also invent a means of mapping time.