Map of life to each his own

Maps are everywhere in life but without them we would never be as advanced technology wise as we are today. But surely now that we are so advanced and there is nowhere left to map on the planet, surely there is no need for maps anymore is there? We can just use our GPS or follow google maps online and not have to worry or remember where we're going because it will just tell us where to go. Gone are they days when your passenger would be holding the paper map bought from the servo while you jointly try to figure out where to go. So are maps really needed anymore in a society as advanced as ours? Yes they are.

 Most people don't realize that everyday each of the average seven billion people on our planet earth are drawing a little piece of a map everyday. But how is this possible? Ninety-nine point nine nine nine percent of planet earth has been mapped and can be viewed on the internet. Of course there isn't anything to map anymore, BUT THERE IS!, life is a journey and everyday we map down our travels for the day, some mentally, some in blogs or social medias and some in old fashion diaries.

These maps help us find our way when we get lost and sometimes help us to not repeat the same dead ends twice throughout life. So what are the purpose of these maps are they even useful to anyone but the person writing them?

 Every map takes a point of view. No map can show everything at once, any more than the two of us could see the same things at the same time at our lunch together. At the very least, if we were to see each other, we couldn't see ourselves! (D. Wood, W.L Kaiser, B. Abramms, 2001 pp.12). So how are the maps of other people important to us? As people age their maps get larger and more well drawn they can start to be understood by other people and can be passed on. With the help of the internet and social media sites such as 9Gag it helps pass these maps on significantly but also makes a lot more parts to the map of life. Also with the aid of the internet it makes not all maps straight forward anymore or as easy to understand as not many other people could look at someone else's map and even make sense of it. But as the older generation and younger generation grow apart some of the older maps have not been passed on at all causing a gap and misunderstanding between the generation and because some of the maps in the younger generation are changing and no longer look like the maps of the older generation. Which is fine as the world changes so do the maps and the way they are passed on and the most brilliant thing is they can be anything from strange jobs  to funny animals.  

References

Denis Wood, Ward l. Kaiser & Bob Abramms 2001 Seeing through maps many ways to see the world(New Internationalist Publications™ Ltd)pp.12