"Maps in general do not have explicit unified messages. They certainly have implicit ones, but these aren't noted in the legend. The messages only become evident through contextual filtration and are subject to multiple interpretations. ..Observe, measure, investigate, wonder, puzzle, infer and guess. This is how maps are drawn." : http://situ.ca/mg/statement.html "I am making maps in the awareness of the semiotic loads they carry, but with the intention of adding more subjective filtration, rather than reducing it. I am as interested in the individual mental map that the reader creates from the map as I am in the map itself.": http://situ.ca/mg/index.html Maija Graham is a digital/analog artist and writer who has been involved in the Calgary arts community for the last six years. Recently she has been travelling and studying navigation and cartography-- ongoing themes in her work.

BurningMan Map : http://www.burningman.com/preparation/maps/04_maps/04brc_map.gif
Example of a gamers' map : http://gtasanandreas.net/map/

"the map is not the territory" recognises that individuals may mistake a metaphorical representation of a concept for the concept itself : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_map_is_not_the_territory and http://www.trans4mind.com/holosync/principle4.html and http://willpower.4mg.com/mapoftheterritory.html

Interesting JavaScript mouse roll-over that rolls through 4 different images : http://www.nottheterritory.com/#

"Run and find out". - "Rudyard Kipling (motto from "Riki Tiki Tavi", about a mongoose family)