--- health: underConstruction: true --- # (3) Exercise: Draw Your Own Map ## What geographic information is already in your head? * Pick a place that's important to you * It could be where you live, your school, or another familiar location * Grab a piece of paper and take 5 minutes to draw this place * Add as much information as you can about this place * Feel free to add colors, explanations, labels and whatever else you feel is important to communicated about the area you are mapping <aside> Check out these COVID-era [hand drawn maps](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-coronavirus-lockdown-neighborhood-maps/) of people's homes and neighborhoods! </aside> ## How would you tell a computer what you know? * Now go to [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/) and find the same location you mapped * What is different about how you drew the place and how it's shown on the computer map? * Is anything missing or lacking from either map? * Which map seems more "accurate" to you? * How do you think OpenStreetMap encodes the information that appears on the screen?