Semantic Zooming, Oh, I Thought You Said Semantic Zoning.

Just the usual read­ing too quickly this a.m. and I got seman­tic zon­ing instead of seman­tic zooming.

On reflec­tion seman­tic zon­ing may be more use­ful con­cept. Think of sematic zon­ing like county zon­ing. You know, urban plan­ning. Per­haps (?) our clas­si­fi­ca­tion schemes need to be a bit more like a city. Some bits of a city we zone and design for easy, cer­tain, and sure access, like a cen­tral core. Some we let ram­ble a bit like the res­i­den­tial neigh­bor­hoods. Some areas we inten­tion­ally push toward chaos and sur­prise like parks and gar­dens. How we zone and how rigidly we grid an area depends on what peo­ple are likely to be doing or seek­ing in each area. The court house and hos­pi­tal, should be imme­di­ately and dis­tinctly find­able. The bench under the wil­low in the arbore­tum, not so much.