how were the maps used in past and present?
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The history of cartography traces the development of cartography, or mapmaking technology, in human history. Maps have been one of the most important human inventions for millennia, allowing humans to explain and navigate their way through the world. The earliest archaeological maps include cave paintings, to ancient maps of Babylon, Greece, China, and India. In their most simple form maps are two dimensional constructs, however since the age of Classical Greece maps have also been projected onto a three-dimensional sphere known as a globe. In the 21st century, with the onset of Information Age and the subsequent increase in computing power, maps can now be digitized in numerical form, transmitted and updated easily via satellite GPS.
The history of cartography traces the development of cartography, or mapmaking technology, in human history. Maps have been one of the most important human inventions for millennia, allowing humans to explain and navigate their way through the world. The earliest archaeological maps include cave paintings, to ancient maps of Babylon, Greece, China, and India. In their most simple form maps are two dimensional constructs, however since the age of Classical Greece maps have also been projected onto a three-dimensional sphere known as a globe. In the 21st century, with the onset of Information Age and the subsequent increase in computing power, maps can now be digitized in numerical form, transmitted and updated easily via satellite GPS.Maps, or depictions that can be identified as geographical representations, have been found across ancient and Bronze Age cultures, with many of these early maps being simple structures that were likely more intended to be used as religious or symbolic tools rather than practical ones. The Classic Greeks in particular developed and expanded the science of Geography and Cartography, with important developments including some of the first attempts to measure the radius of the earth, the development of the first latitude and longitude systems, and the discovery that the earth was spherical, and not a flat disk. (The spherical earth theory has been accepted among the intellectual elite essentially since the 3rd century B.C. and the notion that Europeans thought the earth was flat until the Renaissance is a common misconception.)[1]