Map Assigment

The map has a very detailed description of the geographical orientation of the main streets in Quito’s Down Town; it is reach in images of the churches and historical monuments. I think probably the biggest strength of this map is not just showing the street names, but the neighborhoods, which are very important to the local people, because of the symbolic content of each place. Nevertheless there are several aspects that are left out. For example if I were to make my own map, I would include the crazy man yelling at people at the San Francisco Plaza, or the homeless guy in the Chile and Guayaquil corner, that always has a smile on his face, the delicious “dulce de higo” outside the Santo Domingo Cathedral, and the spot in which one can have the most amazing conversations with old guys in “La Independencia” Plaza. I would include every crazy detail that one can find every day, every single place in which you can contact real people and experiment the humanity of the place. Probably this places are not included because most of people doesn’t care about this type of beauty, but in my point of view those kind of details are the ones that make the Down Town really special.