What kind of literacies are involved in being able to read a map?  Or being able to recognize geographical locations on a map?

ok I just wanted an excuse to link this video I found.  Although if this stimulates a discussion on map literacies, that would be great!

Over the next few weeks, I’d like to use this space to post pictures of signs and talk about them — no, not the worn-out diagrams of tree-sounds and tree-concepts, the signifiers and signifieds of Saussure’s universe (though those are plenty interesting too). I’m talking about the kind of signs that you and I [...]