ABSTRACT
We believe in map because in our view, it’s what the customer needs and wants: To have access anywhere, through any kind of technology.
Jean-Marie Messier Neligan 2006
The word map ordinarily means pictorial representation of some geographical area, but this word is not limited only to represent some geographical areas. It has wide applicability in many fields, like genetic maps that are used by biologists to analyze the genetic structure of humans in order to cure genetic diseases, nonspatial maps like Gantt charts that are used to display logical relationship among items, and spatial, but nongeographical, maps like star maps that are used by astronomers to present night sky and to locate astronomical objects like stars, galaxies, and constellations. In other words, a map can be defined as symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes. Some maps are static 2D representations, whereas others are dynamic 3D representations. Moreover, it is not necessary to always have a scale or context for a map like brain maps and genetic maps.
