Memory Maps Of Edinburgh

At final year's State of the Map - Scotland participants were asked to depict a map of fundamental Edinburgh from memory. The map had to include Edinburgh Castle, Waverley Station, together with Evolution House (the conference venue).

Alan Bragg used Map Warper to georectify the manus drawn maps of Edinburgh together with hence overlaid the results on tiptop of an interactive Leaflet map. The resulting No-map Map of Edinburgh allows yous to suit the transparency of each of these retentivity maps of Edinburgh together with compare the results amongst the OpenStreetMap map of Edinburgh.

The results seem to propose that virtually of the people taking purpose inwards the experiment had a feel of Edinburgh Castle together with the Royal Mile equally beingness the geographical pump of Edinburgh. It equally good appears to me that virtually of the participants hence used major roads equally a withdraw or frame to assist house other details on their maps.

The No-map Map exclusively has half dozen hand-drawn maps of Edinburgh. However it is a actually interesting petty experiment. Carried out on a larger scale this could travel a actually interesting agency to explore how people mentally map geographical spaces.