Mental mapping is an individual's perception on their world and how they interact with it. The concept behind a mental map is to visually represent the point of view of the person drawing the map. It showcases how they view the world, where they have been, what they know about place and most importantly, how they organize and store mapping information in their brain. Essentially, this is unique from person to person. This map is a sketch of a neighborhood drawn by a resident in Nottingham City. It depicts streets, locations, plazas, and residential homes that this person associated the most with in his/her daily life. If you click on the Map Source, there is another drawing of a second person's mental map. You can compare how different the second mental map is from the first, and examine the information they provide. Each person decides what they want to put on the map, how the shape appears to them, and create different details and boundaries on their perceived locations.
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