http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/mapsandsociety/slides/thematic/cartoons/index.htmlA mental map is a map that is specific to a persons point of view. Mental maps are abstracted representations of the world. Every day aspects of ones life tends to highly affect the accuracy or the detail of a mental map. For example, if two people were asked to make a map of a beach town, someone who lives in Kentucky is likely to make an extremely different make than someone who lives on the beach in Florida. The map above is a mental map of the world. I would suspect that the person who created this map lives in North America because the shape and detail of North America is more accurate and precise than that of Africa, which was drawn as a triangle. One of the most interesting aspects of mental maps is that there is no "wrong" or "inaccurate" way to produce them. They are completely subjective to interpretation.
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