ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about some preliminary propositions for the development of a cartography of reality based upon the anthropocentric notions of distance and space all know in everyday experience. A cartography, a geography, of reality cannot be based on unsuspected and unsupportable abstractions of the nthe degree but must be rooted in palpable daily human experience. The isolates of individual experience so completed, private time imbricating private space, are of course none other than the real worlds the cartography of reality seeks to portray. A completed cartography of reality will consist of a full set of reality conventions capable of transforming the reality of individual human experience in its spatial entirety to two-dimensional graphic form, though the conventions will develop over time, as have those of the conventional cartography. The geometry of maps of the real world must be a natural geometry; and, as A. S. Eddington has put it, "Natural geometry is the theory of the behavior of material scales".
