Where can I buy a map?

1. Most big bookstores, such as Xinhua Bookstore, sell travel maps, wall-hung maps and atlases from local to other places. In some places, there are also specialized tourist supplies and map shops selling more comprehensive maps.

2. When you go to a place, you can buy maps around most railway stations and airports.

Newsstands and maps can also be bought around tourist attractions.

Or, you can install map software on your smartphone, and you can easily find the route to a place.

A map is a graph that uses lines, symbols, colors, text notes, etc. Describe and show the physical geography, administrative areas and social conditions of the earth's surface in a certain proportion. With the progress of science and technology, the concept of map is constantly changing. For example, maps are regarded as "images and symbol models reflecting natural and social phenomena", "carriers of spatial information" and "transmission channels of spatial information".

Ancient maps were generally painted on parchment or slate, and the carrier of traditional maps was mostly paper. With the development of science and technology, electronic maps and other carriers have appeared.

Changes in the map:

With the development of science and technology, many remarkable changes have taken place in the fields related to maps.

1. With the wide application of computer-based electronic equipment in cartography, maps are no longer limited to expressing on paper (or similar media) with symbols and graphics, but can be stored in magnetic media in digital form or expressed on the screen through visual processing;

2. Due to the development of space technology, satellite remote sensing images have appeared, which not only provide a new data source for map making, but also can directly take images as the manifestation of geographical things, and at the same time expand people's horizons to the moon and other planets;

3. With the development of multimedia technology, video, sound, etc. Can be a means of map expression.