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Perhaps the most intrinsic element of a map are the shapes which guide and inform the reader’s perspective. The art of transforming a three dimensional land mass into a two dimensional piece of paper is reliant on orienting the reader’s line of…

The North and South Poles, while taking up less space on the map, prove just as integral to the arguments of the map as the East-West Hemisphere split. They are depicted via azimuthal projections in which the distance from a center point is recorded…

Perhaps the most obvious medium for the portrayal of European domination is the inclusion or exclusion of continents on Vischer’s map. Europe appears at the northernmost point as the most complex in outline due to the cartographer’s Dutch background.…

The final layer of the map I included was the interpretations of the zodiac glyphs that surround the spheres. The twelve signs of the zodiac are divided among the four corners of the map. The upper left features Aries (the ram), Taurus (the bull),…

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…

The organization of my map, Sekai bankoku Nihon, depends on segmentation of a variety information. The segmentation is facilitated by black lines of various widths that form boxes and borders for text, drawn depictions of people from around the…