Category: MAPS

Jun 11 2009

Maps

Maps are drawings which helps us to know about places, their location, the way to reach etc. In simple words, they convey geographical information. Once, the only people aware of maps were those who had the necessity to use that. But now almost every knows about maps after the introduction of “MAP” a character in cartoons. The art of making maps is called cartography, which were advanced to ancient Greece. And the oldest maps are preserved in Babylonian clay tablets, belonging to the period of 2300 BC. Now the maps are available on internet and even on mobile phones.