THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAPS

Map is the way people arrange their information from the real life efficiently. All information is represented in map with particular groups, relationships etc. The purpose of the maps is helping user have a logic and easy looking about information they need. During development period, many new kinds and forms of maps are created with additive new technology.

The earliest form of map is just pictures were carved or painted on the wall of caves. In this picture, human life were presented

Then, maps were drawn on wooden board or animal skins, however maps still looked like “big pictures”, there are many of drawing objects are drawn on map such as trees, jungle, mountain, river, stream etc. In this time, people didn’t have good and modern transportation, so maps could just represent for a particular size of a small areas, not huge.

In the period of the development of transportation, there are many modern transportation such as plane. Creating a map is easier. In addition, people use particular symbols with different colors to represents particular things on the map instead of using small images. The size of the map became smaller but more information are represents. More over, maps were not only used for orientation, also used for representing information in different fields of life such as history, economy, politic etc.

Finally, in the modern world with the fast development of communication and media systems such as internet, satellite. Modern Maps version is created. For instance, people in anywhere in the world, they can use Google Earth to find and view wherever in the world easily and quickly or in developed countries, people can use GPS( Global Positioning System) for navigation.