How to memorize location-based information (like maps)?

[Josh (Josh Cohen)]

These threads might have some ideas:

How to memorize an image or picture?

Is there any shortcut or technique to memorize an image? And by Image I mena a visual, static figure, wich may or may not contain characters (words or numbers). A sucessful memorization of such an image would be like seeing a photograph, and being able to discern any aspect of it.

Using paintings as palaces

Has anyone else tried using paintings to memorize things? I have been experimenting with using books of paintings to memorize poetry. I usually get about 8 loci from a single painting, depending on its size, and I put about a half-line of poetry at each locus. So each painting gives me room for four lines of poetry. Anyone done something similar? How’d it go?