Freshman year of college, before Google maps or even smart phones were available, a group of us were sent on a scavenger hunt in an unfamiliar town armed with fragments of different maps. Some pieces had cartoonishly drawn landmarks, some were street maps, and all of them were printed at different scales. Whenever we figured out what piece of map corresponded to our location – which was very difficult because locations were distorted or missing – we could hardly get an overall sense of th...
