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Map skills help develop our spatial thinking. Spatial thinking is the ability to give visuals to data. That is basically what a map is: a visual representation of coordinates on a plane. When students learn map skills, they are learning to visualize and interpret data.

The first known map was scratched on clay tablets in the ancient city of Babylon as long back as 600 BC, and the first world map was created by Greek academic Anaximander in the 6th century BC, who believed the earth was shaped like a cylinder and that humans habited the flat upper portion.

A map is a picture of a place, usually drawn from above. We have big giant maps? and small maps with lots of detail. Maps can be printed on paper and folded, they can be three dimensional like this globe or even on a phone. The closer you look at a map, the more detail you see. Those green areas are national parks.

Map reading (also sometimes written as map-reading) is the act of interpreting or understanding the geographic information portrayed on a map. Through map reading, the reader should be able to develop a mental map of the real-world information by processing the symbolized information shown on the map.

The ability to read a compass correctly to help you recognise what direction items on the map are in relation to each other. The ability to recognise and read map symbols. These can often be found on the map's key.

Ing to the ICSM (Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping), there are five different types of maps: General Reference, Topographical, Thematic, Navigation Charts and Cadastral Maps and Plans.

The History of Cartography Project is a research, editorial, and publishing venture drawing international attention to the history of maps and mapping. The Project treats maps as cultural artifacts created from prehistory through the twentieth century.

In KS2 (ages 7 - 11), children learn to use the eight points of a compass, how to give four and six figure grid references and use symbols and keys on maps to interpret information about the land they represent.