Cartography

Roles: mapmaker, territory, map, scale, legend, projection

The art of representing spatial reality in compressed, selective form. Every map is a deliberate distortion — choosing what to include, what to omit, and how to project a curved world onto a flat surface. Powerful as a source domain for any act of modeling or abstraction, because it makes the cost of representation visible: all maps lie, but some are useful.

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