Mapping

I think the issues I am being confronted with in this project are expressed in this section of Michael de Certeau's book 'The Practice Of Everyday Life'.

The operations of walking on can be traced on city maps in such a way as to transcribe their paths...But these thick or thin curves only refer, like words, to the absence of what has passed by. Surveys of routes miss what was: the act of passing by...The trace left behind if substituted for the practice...It exhibits the voracious property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility but in doing so causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.