ABSTRACT
Mapping can be understood primarily as the cognitive process of the individual, as a relationship to place is generated. It is in the resulting need to refine, describe, and communicate these mappings that the visualization phase of mapping begins. By the time it is visualized, every gesture recorded in a map has undergone filtering, reassignment, and prioritization; whether conscious or otherwise. Paradoxically, while the map is often held as the most objective of documents, the process of mapping must be understood in light of its fundamental selective and subjective process of formation.
