User:Manali Mehra

Introduction:
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions or themes.

Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or fictional, without regard to context or scale such as in brain mapping and DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract spaces of any dimension, such as arise in modeling phenomena having many independent variables.

Definition:
The representation or drawing of a earth surface or part of the earth surface on the flatten paper is called MAP.

TYPES OF MAPS
There are 3 types of map.


 * Physical Map
 * Political Map
 * Thematic Map


 * PHYSICAL MAP :These map representing water bodies mountains or such physical features are called PHYSICAL MAP.
 * POLITICAL MAP: These map shows the towns, cities, villages countries and states of world with their boundaries are called POLITICAL MAP.


 * THEMATIC MAP: A  'THEMATIC MAP' is a map that focuses on a specific theme or subject area. Thematic maps emphasize spatial variation of one or a small number of geographic distributions. These distributions may be physical phenomena such as climate or human characteristics such as population density and health issues.

COMPONENTS OF MAP
Maps have FIVE components.


 * DISTANCE
 * DIRECTION
 * SYMBOL
 * SKETCH
 * PLAN


 * DISTANCE : Distance is the distance measured along the surface of the earth. The formula in this article calculate distances between points which are defined by geographical coordinates in terms of  latitude and longitude.
 * DIRECTION: Direction is used to determine where things are in relation to other things. Direction can also describe movement.
 * SYMBOL: Symbols are small pictures that stand for different features on a map. A symbol is often drawn to look like what it represents.
 * SKETCH: An outline map drawn from observation rather than from exact survey measurements and showing only the main features of the area.
 * PLAN: A plan is a drawing of a small area on a large scale. A large-scale map gives lot of information.