What is a deep map?

The deep map is an engaged representation of the place, representing a literary and documentary approach to the mapping of the place. The deep map combines history, topography, politics, photographs and folklores, among other things, to map the limited space. It is not a strictly geographical topographic or goal. It combines an opinion with politicization and poetry and guerrillary. It is a multidimensional approach to passing a place of place. It is a kind of vertical writing of travel and topographic survey. This deep map, written by William at least Heat-Moon, was a Chase County in Kansas. Chase County is the last remaining area of ​​prairies with high grass in the ground. Heat-Moon composed his book through illustrations and hand-drawn maps of the area, telling the anecdote of people in cities, giving the policy of the area and combining its impression. This book would eventually be the second part of the deep mapping, the topographic trilogy from Heat-Moon. Others included a deep map that became Lewis and Clark's reconnaissance. Of thatThe reason can also be made deep mapping in a long form for radio broadcasting. Some called this artistic form with deep mapping "vertical writing travel" and compared it with topographic books of survey written by pioneers of the 17th and 18th centuries, such as Alexis de Tocqueville.

deep map, in the tradition of describing American life de Tocqueville in the 19th century, has much more than just a document. Includes Natural history and juxtaposition of the country and people. The deep map includes people's biography and the autobiography of the writer and traveling. Deep mapping can take days, months or years because Mapper gets understanding people and places. Mapper must collect sights, sounds, feelings and history. The deep map includes different media. They are multilayer and topographic in their heart.

deep maps can include graphic works along with time media and archives. They can do that amAtér or artist and therefore are often passionate reflections. Deep maps are not permanent because of their nature. They go beyond time and reflect space all the time and people and feelings. Due to these involvement in the mapping, deep maps were called "participatory history".

This art, which has been compared with geography and history, holds a place as opposed to both and is very much in both. Deep maps combine the human combination of fiction and literature with a fictitious and topographic feeling of travelogue.