Globe is, of course, the only possible medium for showing all geograpical relationships in true perspective...But globes have a serious drawback:they are limited in scale. A globe which would show a continent on the same scale as most standard maps would have to be two, three, perhaps four meters in diameter."
John Noble Wilford from The Mapmakers.
Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships are depicted. Maps therefore become important documents. There are several key elements that should be included each time a map is created in order to aid the viewer in understanding the communications of that map. The recording of spatial data on maps is known as cartography.
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