What is the definition of a map?

Answer 1

the definition of a map is a drawing of an area or country showing rivers, roads, cities, etc.

Answer 2

Definition Of Map

Answer 3

A visual and symbolic represetation of an area:
Examples: your average road map, a brain scan, a contour map or a 3D photographic map.

A process for saving an entire image is called a bit map because the proces maps the bits of data. When you create a computer model you map the surface to represent it; this process is called rendering and takes a huge amount of time. It is how movies like Transformers and Toy Story were done.

Your standard map is a terrian model with symbols for height, folage, roads, buildings etc.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map
"A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes.

Many maps are static two-dimensional, geometrically accurate representations of three-dimensional space, while others are dynamic or interactive, even three-dimensional. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or imagined, without regard to context or scale; e.g. Brain mapping, DNA mapping, and extra-terrestrial mapping."

Answer 4

A concise yet complete definition:

A map is a drawing to scale of a portion of the earth's surface using symbols to represent geographic and man-made features.

Answer 5

RE:
What is the definition of a map?

Answer 6

a map is a drawing or representation of part or whole of the earth surface on a plane medium

Answer 7

It is an Drawing of a area

Answer 8

a representation of the earth, or sections of the earth, in the right proportion and relationship to eachother.