This article examines the numerous and constantly updated tourist maps published in Taketomijima of Yaeyama Islands of Okinawa Prefecture. To date, these“Vernacular Maps” have been used but have drawn little attention. With distorted scale size and abstract representations of direction and distance, these topological maps are updated at random times, and some publishing houses do not produce updates for long periods of time. However, when viewed in another way, we can see that these maps are thought-provoking texts. In this article, I would like to consider the expressions that appear on these maps to be both a manifestation of“collective resources” and ethnographic text that is supported by social practice. Situated in between inertia of symbols and inertia of history, these maps are generative and are constantly renewed without ever becoming stereotyped. In this aspect, these texts easily traverse and pass through ethnographic issues (Ethnographic Present) brought about by stereotyped viewpoints. It would thus appear that these maps, as an outstanding resource that transcends stereotyped viewpoints, can in fact show us people.