ABSTRACT

I have been trying to build, rather carefully, a picture of how all this mapmaking comes about and what it means. No doubt this has made the reading dull, and your own quick mind has leaped ahead of the text. You must already have realized that the map of Room 12 in Public School No. 4 with Miss McFarland sitting up front and smirking at the class, carries also an element of judgment, perhaps, in this case, that Miss McFarland was rather a nasty old witch. Maps can carry more than geographical data.