I like maps, because they are the visual example of how everything in this world is constructed.
One can go on about different map types, how they are pc or not, what they show and what they leave off, and how they make us view the world and also change it.
A very basic example is the comparison between a map of a city, which usually shows streets, lakes, parks, names of suburbs, and a subway plan that has the routes of different public transportation systems and their intersections on it. Although it interacts with the geographic map, it won’t show us underneath which streets and places the subway goes or the exact connections between two routes at an intersection station.
Google maps now introduced a layer which does exactly that, linking geographic maps to subway plans, linking the underworld to the daylight. It opens an underground-perspective on cities. By doing so, it makes our perception of our close environment a bit more real…does it really?
