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The ability to interact with a map is a core function provided by any web mapping application.

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  1. noun A representation, usually on a plane surface, of a region of the earth or heavens.
  2. noun Something that suggests such a representation, as in clarity of representation.
  3. noun Mathematics The correspondence of elements in one set to elements in the same set or another set.
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  • In his book Operation Victory, General de Guingand relates how a false "going-map" was planted on us in No Man's Land by the British Intelligence; I can confirm that this map was accepted as authentic and served its purpose in leading the Afrika Korps astray Editor's note. —  Panzer Battles
  • On the page following the map is a useful chart that breaks down the trails into easy, moderate or strenuous hikes. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • The most prominent feature in this map is the Laurentian Channel, which is now a drowned glacial outwash river valley. —  Clastic Detritus
  • Finding places on the map is a bit challenging, but I was eventually able to locate all the small towns our team visited last year (you have to zoom in pretty far). —  NPR Topics: News
  • But if this map is any indication, I don't think it'll be the amendment NOM is hoping for. —  MoJo Blogs and Articles
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  1. From Middle English mapemounde, from Old French mapemond, from Medieval Latin mappa (mundī), map (of the world), from Latin, napkin, cloth (on which maps were drawn), perhaps of Punic origin; see npy in Semitic roots.

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  1. Early modern English mappe, from Old French (also F.) mappe = Spanish mapa = Portuguese mappa, mapa, a map, = Italian mappa, a map, properly, as in Old French F. Italian, a napkin, = Dutch map, mappe, map, portfolio, = G. Danish mappe, portfolio; from Latin mappa, a napkin, table-cloth, a cloth or handkerchief to give the signal in racing; said to be of Punic origin. Hence Middle Latin mappa mundi (later Old French mappemonde, later Middle English mappemounde, q. v.), a map of the world, a map being compared, with regard to its folding or to its being spread out on a table, to a napkin or table-cloth. The L. mappa became corrupted in Middle Latin to napa, later ult. English napery, napkin, and napron, apron, q. v.
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