AHI Journal Volume 16, Number 2, Autumn 2011

Manage uncertainty. That’s what maps help us to do. They enable us to understand our location, to conceptualise where we are in space and even to interpret our surroundings. In doing so they answer some rather fundamental questions: Where am I? Where can I go? How long will it take to get there? What will I see on the way? But to answer these, maps need to be interpreted and some people are more adept at this than others.