The phrase "a map as a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing or describing the function or purpose of a map in relation to something else.
Example: "In this project, we will use a map as a tool for visualizing data trends across different regions."
Alternatives: "a map serving as a" or "a map functioning as a".
Yap et al.[ 50] were the first to model a map as a directed graph, with nodes representing mapped markers and edges defining the order of adjacent markers.
Only later did she identify it, from a map, as a septic tank.
The Lesser Sunda Islands continue through Sumbawa and Flores, narrowing progressively until they appear on a map as a spine of volcanic islands that loops northeast into the Banda Islands.
Maybe that's why it's amusing to see a couple of Italians, befuddled and referring to a map, as a cyclist pedals past in the bike lane that has rearranged traffic on the southbound avenue.
Long before I could locate the peninsula of Gallipoli on a map, as a Briton I knew it as a place where we did something awful to the Australians.
Then the teams pretty much said goodbye to Caribbean blue, with the commercial centres of Kingston, and Port-of-Spain, followed by Georgetown, which despite once being described in print (by a colleague who had never set foot there, or even consulted a map) as a "palm-fringed island", isn't even in the Caribbean at all.
"So you need a map as well as a magnifying glass to figure out their rates," Mr. Pitofsky said.
Each URL includes a pin on a map, as well as room for additional directions/instructions, plus options for sharing.
You can use a map as well.
In her foreword, Schalansky describes the act of finger-walking a map as an "erotic gesture".
It would have been nice, still, to have had a map as an option and for the juxtapositions between the dances and MoMA's collection to have been less haphazard.
