Micro Abstraction
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....Maps are the only type of widely used two-dimensional images that exhibit qualities of all three types of sign:icon,symbol and index. They are iconic in the way that they are topographies they indicate. They are symbolic in the way that they are abstractions and descriptions of that topography, with arbitrary design features and agreed conventions...
Jonathan Parsons
Turps, issue 9.