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Subject:Re: Mapping, take II From:"Locke, David" <dlocke -at- BINDVIEW -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:14:40 -0500
So maybe, in our hypertext systems, we need to stop thinking about jumps
(link) as just a way to move from one paragraph (node) to another, and start
thinking about jumps as relationships.
David W. Locke
Ben Kovitz
> <<a geographical map doesn't represent the relationship
> between the two-dimensional image and the three-
> dimensional world, it *is* the two-dimensional image.>>
>
<snip>
> <<And a super-nitpick: a mapping isn't the representation of
> the relationship, it *is* the relationship.>>
>
Geoff Hart What he said!
