navigational maps

Seafarer's route papers

Navigational maps are maps designed to guide travel, showing routes, distances, landmarks, and other features relevant to getting from one place to another.

The term encompasses road maps, nautical charts, aeronautical charts, and hiking trail maps.

Digital navigational maps power GPS devices and smartphone apps: The navigational map rerouted us around the traffic jam.

Related

treasure map · portolan charts · sea voyage · compass rose · air corridors · shipping lanes · cartography · land survey · tide tables · chart room · paper charts · waypoints · GPS devices · dead reckoning · magnetic north · elevation profiles · route planning · map projection

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Opposites
purpose/function

navigational mapshistorical maps

Geographic records from earlier eras

fantasy maps · political maps

accuracy/reliability

navigational mapspaper towns

Fictitious map entries

spatial orientation

navigational mapsuncharted territory

Unmapped, unexplored area

blank pages · terra incognita

Family

navigational, navigation, navigate, navigates, navigated, navigating, navigator, navigators, navigable

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