Welcome to WhichDirection.com
WhichDirection is a site dedicated to products and services available to you when you are searching for the best route to your destination
Whether you are using the latest earth viewing software or the most up to date Satellite Navigation system there will always be a need to find the most convenient route between two points. Unlike the exacting world of mathematics the shortest route is hardly ever a straight line and a map showing the various turning points is often needed.
A map is a simplified depiction of a space, a navigational aid which highlights relations between objects within that space. Most usually a map is a two-dimensional, geometrically accurate representation of a three-dimensional space. The science and art of map-making is cartography; see that page for further discussion of the history of maps and map-making.
Map-making dates back to the Stone Age and appears to predate written language by several millennia. One of the oldest surviving maps is painted on a wall of the Catal Huyuk settlement in south-central Anatolia (now Turkey); it dates from about 6200 BC.
While we tend to think of maps today as products of a rationalistic, scientific world-view, maps also have a mythic quality. Pre-modern maps, and mapping traditions outside the Western tradition, often merge geography with non-scientific cosmography, showing the relationship of the viewer to the universe.