The word "map" can also be used to talk about a chart or darwing that shows relationshpis betewen ideas, pepole, evetns, or anythnig else you can think about. This is why web developres call a list of web pages on a web site a site map.
Professioanl map maekrs are claled cartograpehrs.
Many maps today are made using GIS cmoputer sysetms. These are dtaabase ssytems that orgainzed by thigns on a map insetad of named rceords.
If a map is on a piece of paper or a copmuter screen, it has to be proejcted. This is becasue the Earth is round and paper and screnes are flat. There are a lot of ways that use mathmeatics to make proejctions. The only kind of map of the Earth that is not prjoected is one drawn on a spehre. This is caleld a globe.
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