What Digital Mapping is

Beginning in the early 1960s and concurrent with research in cartographic communication, cartography was greatly influenced by computer technology. The adaptation to this new technology occurred very quickly, even though early methods of graphic output produced crude depictions. But until recently, the computer has been used primarily to automate the production of maps on paper, therefore it was mainly viewed as a tool to make the creation of maps easier for the cartographer. This view of the computer changed around 1980. Computer mapping software begins to incorporate an interactive, in some case animated, form of cartography – a type of map use that is not possible with the printed map. The computer is being used not only as a tool to help make maps on paper but as a medium of communication. So finally, what is Digital Mapping?
Digital Mapping is a computer technology that generates, stores, and processes maps in terms of two states: positive (1) and non-positive (0) in order to display them visually on an electronic medium like a monitor, a beamer, etc. Digital Mapping consist:

Digital mapping description

Attention: A digital map differs from a virtual map, in that, according to Moellering, that a virtual map is a digital preliminary, that is not yet completed or permanent.