Mental Map

http://go.owu.edu/~jbkrygie/krygier_html/geog_222/geog_222_lo/geog_222_lo13.html

This is a map that a student from Thailand made of what they thought the world looked like. I think this map is really interesting because it shows what a large impact different projections of maps have on people. In this map, two important things to notice are how the countries in the north looked very stretched out, just like a Mercator projection, and also how the detail seems to be a little more accurate in the region or part of the world where this student is from and the further away from their immediate perspective, the more distorted the map becomes.