All maps have their uses in teaching, learning, and carrying on with the business of life.
The large round globe on a stand will always have a place in libraries, in homes, and in the corners of homerooms at school. Maps in atlases, geography textbooks, and encyclopedias will continue to be indispensable for studying details about Germany, Ohio, the seven hills of Rome, or the homelands of South Africa. Maps are deeply involved in such studies as history, ecology, current events, and so on. Specialized maps of all kinds will always be required for such activities as air and ocean navigation, weather prediction, geological surveying, mining, agriculture, urban development, planning of automobile road trips, finding the location of a new shopping mall on a city street map, and for finding a given store once inside the mall. Myriad thematic maps will appear daily on subjects concerning population, education, economics, international trade, current events, and on ad infinitum.