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Description: The「女人国」at the top represents an imaginative land in China where only women live and boys who are born immediately die. 「小人国」and 「一眼国」located closely to 「女人国」 means, “Country of Dwarves” and “Country of One-eyed People”,…

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 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…

Creating this layer probably made me most aware of the choices and labor involved in creating this map. When I set out to create a layer that would illustrate inclusion of trees and what appears to be cultivated land on the map, my eye had primarily…

What it is:
The yellow layer depicts the landmass of the European continent, as well as the base color for Japan, the compass in the middle, mountain ranges in Europe and South America, and various labels around the map. The yellow color also…

One of the things that stood out most immediately to me about this map—again, both visually and interpretively—was the abundance of fortifications and walls of different types on display. Visually, the darkly rendered lines of the walls give them a…

The roads seem to be the logical next layer. They are likely the first effort made by the military unit to allow vehicular movement and more operations through the beach area. There are two types of roads depicted, improved and un-improved. The…

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…

This layer contains the physical shapes of continents and islands as understood at the time of the map's creation. It is in many ways the real substance of the map, whose intention seems to be showing "the whole world." The majority of detail is in…