Blog post #3

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Today's key question was the same as the question for yesterday (How do geographers describe where things are), but the new learning objectives we had to complete helped us to see the multiple ways that can be used to describe where things are. Learning objective number 1 was to define mental maps and activity spaces. Activity spaces are the areas that you travel across through your daily cycle. Because activity spaces are so familiar to people since they complete them every day, geographers can use the places in activity spaces to describe where things are. For example, the Safeway is right next to your house gives a general description to help someone find the Safeway easier. Mental maps are a personal visualization of spatial information (basically a map inside of your head). Mental maps can be used in many different ways and describing these ways was actually learning objective 2, and one way they are used that can help describe where different things are is, they can be used to give people meaning about a map, including geographers. This allows for the people to be more involved and knowledgeable about the topic so they can describe it later with a lot of detail so others can understand where something is or what is happening in the world. Another way mental maps can be used is, to organize and store information for the future. This allows geographers to actually remember where something is on a map so they can again, describe it in detail. Finally, even though this doesn't really help to describe where things are, mental maps can be used to find the way between places, helping prevent people from getting lost and allowing them to find places easily because they're in the memories of the person. The different ways mental maps can be used cause them to be very useful to geographers and even just normal people. the final learning objective was to discuss how mental maps are used in geography. I have already talked about this in the ways that some of the uses for mental maps can be related to helping geographers describe where things are, but mental maps can also be used in geography because they help people gain information, store the information, and learn more about the world, solve its problems, and make decisions to help it.

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