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[gfish]

Who else gets slightly annoyed when people don't use the correct map-relative direction (up->north, down->south, over->east/west) when talking about large-scale geography? From Seattle I can head up to Vancouver, down to Portland, or over to Spokane. Period.

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[zzyzx-xyzzy.livejournal.com]

the notion of a "correct" map-relative direction actually undermines the entire purpose and utility of maps, by falsely identifying the representation with the represented.

or as pylyshyn points out, the signature property of representations is the possibility of their misrepresenting, and a layout can only be a "map" if it is interpreted by some process that allows for the possibility of a misinterpretation.