Picture source from wikihow. This is explained digital maps at the time before google maps like now.
Before that, I have already discussed non-digital maps like in this post:
First time I knew a digital maps was in grade 3 junior high school and new to internet cafes with cost four thousand rupiahs/hour at the time(in 2008). At that time, I was introduced to a site called wikimapia.org and I opened the site at an internet cafe.
In there, I can see where hordes of houses and road networks are more clearly visible than wall maps in some offices. But this resolution is still low and my house is not too clear. Besides that which is the main feature at that time there is a collection of areas if designated to turn yellow and show what the area is explained. I prefer like the administration area from city or regency to sub-village. I can add marked area with explanation of area, categories and languanges. Can be boxes, ovals, triangles, pointing arrows and even difficult shapes such as reservoirs, administrative areas, forests and others. But, I can only add simple areas such as square shapes for factories and cliff areas, irregular for a village and so on. Over time, image resolution is increased, the areas that gets high resolution is expanded.
There are more options like panoramio, plain map(no added sign) and some others(I forget what is called). Other option are the map with road network and place(not a sattelite map) and the newer there is google terrain.
Picture source from First Draft. This is explained panoramio.
Google terrain existed since joining in wikimapia and now joining with google maps.
From all map options, I prefer map with area sign(turn yellow if designated) and google terrain. Because on panoramio, at the time I have not pocket camera, camera phone, more over camera 360° 
I can’t upload photos. On google terrain, I can see terrain of an area where the atlas book that only depicts colors for elevation altitude (most detailed only on the district map displayed in several offices) when it was illustrating a very clear terrain with a minimum elevation per 20 meters marked with a thin line, per 100 meters marked thick line. So, I more know this place is ramps or steep, this road has a long incline or not, sharp or sloping.
Over time again, I start open google maps on computer but still in internet cafe. I knew there are default map(not satellite) and satellite map. This picture resolution is more higher than wikimapia at that time. Since 2013, I have mobile phone with internet and camera and I can opened google maps from this phone with 2,5 G or EDGE network and apparently not satisfactory because it is a bit slow (maybe because of the type of network) and I still prefer to open it with a computer at an internet cafe. From 2013 to 2018, I am a Google Maps user but not familiar with the local guide program. Since I knew android phone, HSDPA launched, 4G/LTE launched, I slowly left the internet cafe and I was more focused using it on mobile phone. As a google maps users, I knew my home, hordes of houses(more clearly), road network(now more much), region and using GPS. I just found out there was a feature of viewing photos and reviews from the point where I was a local guide. On April 2018, I am a google maps users as well as being a local guide.
This is my experience. How about you when using digital map?
