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Or in other, less technical terms: the creators of most cartographic artefacts
experience the same interaction between visually perceived facts, abstract
notions and emotionally elements in their minds as the reader when taking
part of the same maps.
Of course it is not impossible to design cartographic products with exclu-
sion of fantasy, imagination or feelings. That would place the map created
in that way on one axis of diagram. It is thinkable; however, if they exist,
those are probably the maps we used to experience as poorly designed
ones.
Figure 7:
Experiencing maps is seen here as a similar derivate of classification as the
METAMAPS but not in the analytical but the synthetically direction.
That because all the three elements are present both in the creational proc-
ess and in experiencing all true cartographic products.
Or in other, less technical terms: the creators of most cartographic artefacts
experience the same interaction between visually perceived facts, abstract
notions and emotionally elements in their minds as the reader when taking
part of the same maps.
Of course it is not impossible to design cartographic products with exclu-
sion of fantasy, imagination or feelings. That would place the map created
in that way on one axis of diagram. It is thinkable; however, if they exist,
