Thursday, April 22, 2010

Map Literacy

If you looked at this map, for a minute ignore the text, what would you make of the routes like tributaries reaching different places. You do not have the advantage of reading the title of the book, that I saw the map in.
Imaginary traveler, that I was already in Spain, so all I could make of the map was take the return routes of the pilgrim walk. Only when the author of the book started in France to get to this place, did I realise that all those roads have to be taken to the left to reach the talked of destination - Santiago de Compostela. It could be the reading from the left to right that we practise or taking in the simpler details first.

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