Coordinate free map to projective space Given a line bundle $\mathcal{L}=\mathcal{O}_X(D)$ on a smooth complete curve $X$ (over $\mathbb{C}$), it's quite well-known that if the space of global sections has $k+1$ base point free, linearly independent sections $s_0, \cdots ,s_k$ (assuming that $\text{dim}_{\mathbb{C}} \Gamma(X,L)=k+1$) then there is a morphism $f: X \to \mathbb{P}^k$ defined by $x \mapsto [s_0(x):\cdots:s_k(x)].$

What is the coordinate free map $X \to \mathbb{P}(\Gamma(X,\mathcal{L}))?$ does one have to always choose coordinates to define $f?$

I was thinking that the bijection between $\mathbb{P}(\Gamma(X,\mathcal{L}))$ and the complete linear system of divisors $|D|$ might be useful, but I'm losing my faith now!   
 A: No, there is no coordinate-free description of $f$.
However there does exist a canonical morphism $g:X\to \mathbb P^*(\Gamma(X,\mathcal L))$ from $X$ to the Grassmannian  $\mathbb P^*(\Gamma(X,\mathcal L)$ of hyperplanes of the $\mathbb C$- vector space $\Gamma(X,\mathcal L)$.
  This Grassmannian is also a projective space, non-canonically isomorphic to  $\mathbb P(\Gamma(X,\mathcal L)$,  just as a finite-dimensional vector space is non-canonically isomorphic to its dual. 
The description of the morphism $g$ is very easy:
 To $x\in X$ associate the hyperplane $g(x)=H_x$ of global sections $s$ of $\mathcal L $ vanishing at $x$ : $$H_x=\{s\in \Gamma(X,\mathcal L)\mid s(x)=0\}\subset \Gamma(X,\mathcal L)$$
That $H_x$ is a hyperplane of $\Gamma(X,\mathcal L)$ (and not the whole space $\Gamma(X,\mathcal L)$) is guaranteed by the absence of base points for the line bundle $\mathcal L$ .     
[This and other considerations have led Grothendieck to redefine projective space as the set of hyperplanes  of a vector space (rather than the  set of lines), thereby introducing in algebraic geometry a confusion  still present today :-)] 
