Chiyoung Kim

Chiyoung Kim

Because this is a path that I walk often, the map wasn't too different from online maps. There were, however, some noticeable distortions and some proportions were off as well. However, my map is different in that the positioning of many of the landmarks along my path were based on relative positioning rather than definite positioning along the street. However, I think this shows how we look at the city on our daily walks along paths we walk often. We walk along our paths knowing the order of landmarks to our final destination, but we might not know the absolute distances between each. This makes it so that the maps we make come out looking slightly like caricatures rather than a map from Google Maps – we know around where everything is located but not where everything is exactly. The city is a collection of landmarks we know of and have in a relatively ordered state in our minds.