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Imagine yourself as a human geographer who has been hired to design a new visitor map for your campus. You survey 100 students on campus and ask them to construct a personal mental map of the campus, including buildings and pathways. How could including both "too much" and "too little" information on a mental map compromise its usefulness to you? Imagine yourself as a human geographer who has been hired to design a new visitor map for your campus. You survey 100 students on campus and ask them to construct a personal mental map of the campus, including buildings and pathways. How could including both "too much" and "too little" information on a mental map compromise its usefulness to you?

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Think of it this way; if you are making a campus map the first thing you are going to do is add buildings, roads, pathways etc.. If you just leave the map like that it would be really useless with out labels of street names, building names etc.. At the same time you could easily add to much information, ie the location of every lab in the chemistry building probably dosn't need to go on the map. But maybe directions to a location that people get lost going to inside a building could be included. Also maybe you don't put every statue that is on campus on the map, but maybe your school has a very famous one or one that can be a marker for a lost person. The map also shouldn't look cluttered. A large map can hold more info then a large one. Also it depends on who the map is for. Is it a visitors map that is at the gate to campus to find a basic building? Or is it a map to be given out on the first day to new students? Each group would be most likely intrested in different information. I hope that helps!

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