A cartographic map is, typically, a two-dimensional representation of some limited portion of the earth´s surface. Features are coded, or abstracted, into meaningful signs, some of which are pictorial (iconic). Distances and directions are coded by two rules of ordering or syntax: a rule of scale and a rule of projection.
J.M. Blaut Environment and Behavior
We need the new term cognitive collage, because these maps are sketches, uncompleted, twisted and abstracted.
You build a subjective environment with your experience and your cognitive map.
Cognitive maps mainly used for orientation of the individual to find the right way, but there is also an emotional affected content relevant.
Every individual has its own imagination of its environment. Two different people have two different pictures of the same environment. But there are common properties of these pictures. My aim is to filter these common properties and to find a language how we can also use our environment.
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