Quotation from the book "Geography and Vision' by Denis Cosgrove

 'Mapping', the cognitive and creative process rather than the scientific and design aspects of map-making, has more than one meaning. Most simply, it refers to the locating and way-finding practices of recording places and things in space, for example the charting activities traditionally employed by navigators that that produced costal rutters or portolani. But mapping also suggests more broadly cognitive and imaginative processes of discovering and denoting our place within the world, and of ordering the worlds we experience through spacial representations: graphically, pictorially, even narratively and performatively.