Remembering URLs is difficult and unforgiving and accumulating bookmarks provides small comfort to most people. But while the web has grown enormously in the past five years, most people on the Internet still wander around without the benefit of a good map. The time has come for more use of maps in the Internet. In 1994 I bought and perused many books about mapmaking. Maps have a wonderful history, and my reading led me to think a lot about how maps need not correspond to physical space.
Maps can introduce whole new geographies.
Mapping the network to discover these geographies is one important way of mining the information needed to create these new navigational aids.