This article is translated from Chen Hu, China National Geography.
Map, as one of the greatest invention in the human history, is a micro simulation of real world, in the map, people can get all the information they need, no matter in political, military, economic aspects.
Map tells stories and passes information all the time. Different maps have different languages.
The world map can tell you the location, population distribution, city scale, etc.
The nautical map can tell you the important information like routes, the coasts, ports, rocks, telling the sailors the way to destination.
The military terrain map can tell you the rise and fall of terrain, the wells, roads, cliffs, and villages can be the important information.
Today, people started trying completely new 3D digital map, which covers from the core to the space, it not only covers the longitude and latitude of traditional 2D map, it can show the cubic grid, the location expression can be read and processed by binary code.
Note: This is a translation from article written by Chen Hu, China National Geography.
Original source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/DB9WtakPdohvcSfteIbH-Q
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