prize7-10, Exercise 3: Make your own map

Model answer (example: a map of a walk from home to the station for a visitor; yours will differ):

Purpose: to help a first-time visitor walk from my house to the station without getting lost.

Five choices:
1. Scale and extent: only the streets along the route and a few streets either side, so the page is not cluttered.
2. Landmarks: the post box, the corner shop and the church, because a visitor will recognise them, not street names alone.
3. Orientation: the route runs left to right with an arrow showing north, so the visitor can match the map to the street.
4. Symbols: a thick line for the route, small icons for landmarks, and a star for the station.
5. Omissions: shortcuts that are muddy in wet weather, and everything not needed for the walk.

Reflection: if the purpose changed to a cycle route, the map would have to show different roads, hills and junctions, and it would be a different map of the same ground.