digital map

Touchscreen navigation guide

A digital map is a map stored and displayed electronically rather than printed on paper.

Digital maps power GPS navigation, allow zooming and searching, and can update in real time with traffic or weather data.

The app's digital map showed a faster route.

Most contemporary mapping happens digitally, making the phrase somewhat redundant—people now say "map" and assume digital unless specifying otherwise.

Related
  • GPSSatellite-based location technology
  • navigationDetermining position and course
  • satelliteOrbiting celestial body
  • zoomRapid movement or magnification
  • zoom inIncrease visual magnification

route · route planner · pin · marker · blue dot · terrain · coordinates · location · directions · street · street view · points of interest · compass · layer · waypoint · traffic · aerial · topography

Categories
Opposites
medium/format

digital mappaper map

Printed geographic reference

physical map · folding map · wall map · atlas · road atlas

technology level

digital mapdead reckoning

Position-tracking via estimated motion

celestial navigation · mental map

technological era

digital mapantique map

Old navigational or decorative document

historical map

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G