map. (map) v. To explore or make a survey of (a region) for the purpose of making a map.

Maps, like much other data, imply and rely upon their own apparent objectivity. They generalize and totalize, striving for objective truths. And yet they are subjective documents. Graphic conventions, choice of content, and orientation all result from subjective decisions.

Maps of experience do not offer closure. In tracing individual experiences, they bring subjectivity to the fore and create avenues into a place; they allow their viewers to re-visit a site according to the terms set by the map's maker.

Representations of this type are an important part of any set of graphic data that seeks to capture a site -- at the very least, as a reminder of the limitations of conventional maps.