Question

Distinguish between a map and a plan?

Answer 1

Hint: Maps are the most significant and crucial tool for geographers to use. They help to understand and discover “relationships” on the earth. A map demonstrates a representation of several phenomena all over the earth or at a particular region of the land, in a diagram graphic format.

Complete answer:

Map	Plan
A map is a visual illustration of a region’s figurative representation highlighting associations between elements of that space such as regions, themes and objects.	Plans are a set of two-dimensional drawings or diagrams used to illustrate an object or place, or to communicate fabrication instructions or a building.
Maps can be represented as real, space, or imagined without regard to scale.	Plans are mainly for technical purposes such as engineering, architecture, or planning.
Maps contain a lot of information	In plans details are given in the form of symbols
It is used for representing larger areas like continents, countries and also for representing small areas like towns and small villages.	It is used for representing things that cannot be represented on a map. For example the length and breadth of a room cannot be shown in a map. For this purpose a plan is used.
A map is a representation or a drawing of the surface of the earth or a part of it drawn on a flat surface according to a scale.	On a broad scale, a plan is a drawing of a small region.

Note: To converse spatial details efficiently, features such as lakes, rivers, and cities are to be labeled. Over many years cartographers have mastered the art of putting the names on even the densest part of the maps. Name placement or text placement can get numerically very complicated as the number of map density and labels increases. Text placement is intensive and time consuming labor, so cartographers have developed a process to automatically place labels to ease this process.