Exercise 4

The map which i got is a map of Amherst,Nova Scotia. This map is a caricature map. I find it very easy to understand. The cartoon style of the map makes the map charming and pleasant to look at. The map mostly consists of locations of businesses, such as restaurants, stores, and motels. This map seems to be for tourists. What the map is missing is the smaller streets. But if the map is for tourists they might not really need the smaller streets and this makes the map fallow the law of pragnanz, since it simplifies the map by only giving information such as gas stops and the golf clubs. On the back of the map is a directory of the businesses in the town and a little blog on the population and background facts of the town. There is no scale , so the map would be no use if one is trying to figure out how long it would take them to go from one point to the next. The map makes everything seem really close by, which could be the truth, sense it seems like a small town. But since it does not have a scale the map fails in conveying some of the information. The map also expresses the patriotic feeling of the town with lines such as "Faith in our people, pride in our products." I am not sure if there is any layering happening, everything seems to be combined together. The highlighting seems to happen with every business, since they seem to pop-out of the map. The map works for me because it does not look complicated, even though it does not have a table of context. But the map really does not use foreign symbolize. The little blue symbolize such as the one for crossing the street are universally recognized.