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# (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
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Check out these COVID-era [hand drawn maps](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-coronavirus-lockdown-neighborhood-maps/) of people's homes and neighborhoods!
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## 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?