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What it is:
The red layer includes the Asian landmass, the outline of Japan, the sun, the northern star, two rivers, several base colors for labels and colorings on the characters. There are several island groups, in what might be the East/South…

What it is:
Both the Americas and what might be construed as Africa (Libya) are portrayed by the blue layer. This colored layer also includes mountain ranges in Asia and Terra Australis. I am most intrigued by one particular mountain range that…

This layer includes the water that surrounds the camp and roads. It shows areas where roads intersect this water and allows for crossing through a break in the connection of the channel . This layer highlights how isolated the camp is as the water is…

This layer shows the layout of roads on the beach. There are 12 distinct roads on the layer. 5 of the roads run from left to right and the other 7 run from bottom to top. There is a single box formed by the intersections of these roads. This…

This layer of the map is the most nebulous and simple. It has the 9 large boxes from the center of the map and 1 of the smaller symbols from the upper left portion of the bounded area. These boxes are arranged in a square and have one of three…

This layer of my map contains all of the pertinent military information from the original map. It has a grid system which according to the legend forms 100 x 100 yd boxes. This is useful information for the military group using the map as they want…

Layer one deals with perspective, and what truly constitutes a map within a map. Indeed the perspective drawing beneath the map proper is a map in and of itself, and offers the reader, quite literally, a different angle of 1737 Berlin which was…

After being spatially situated via the perspective of the vantage point featured in layer one, layer two builds on this sense of location and place by introducing scale, and classification of points of interest in both space and text through use of…

The purpose of layers three and four is to build on the functionality established in layers one and two by introducing elements of physical geography, while also showing how the map presents geographical elements in a way which helps to further a…

Layer four serves to expand upon layer three’s introduction of geographic sense of space, while also complementing and contributing to a developing narrative of inner city centrality. A large number of geographic features and indicators are…