To boldly map what no one has mapped before
Typically distance is measured in physical units such as miles or centimeters. Constructed cartography, in contrast, is a way of depicting how “close” or “far apart” things are from one another in a nontraditional, but functional, way that has nothing to do with physical locations. Constructed cartography results from “functional distances” between objects based on relationships those objects share; in constructed cartography, objects sharing similar relationships are viewed as close together and objects with dissimilar relationships are viewed as far apart from one another.
