Matt linking to my post about taxi drivers and The Knowledge with a headline alluding to Soft City, and Barry Brown's comment on said post about "Italian cab drivers (who) couldn't find places on a map, but they _could_ find routes between the places", happened to coincide with me opening Raban's Old Glory and finding this:
"One man may paint a picture from a careful drawing made on the spot, and another may paint the same scene from memory, from a brief but strong impression; and the last may succeed better in giving the character, the physiognomy of the place, though all the details may be inexact."
J.F. Millet, on landscape painting from memory
Again, a small fragment on the importance of understanding how people enage with the impression of place, rather than dealing with exactitude. Links to ideas around structure of feeling, perhaps.
