Like I said, they aren't meant to be accurate, they are meant to convey the basic principle.
The term I use for it in my work is abstracted states vs concrete states.
I call this phenomenon the universe-view state collapse.
The universe exists in an infinite amount of “states.” Each of these can be represented as a space of vectors of information and qualities corresponding to all the mass in the earth (or even universe) and other relevant data. We will those spaces as |i>. Said states comprising the space are alternate in series between states where the Earth has the geographic south pole at the geographic center of the disk, and those in which it has the geographic north pole in the geographic center of the disk. The state class with the north pole geographically in the center is denoted by Φ, and that with the south pole geographically centered is denoted by Θ. Consider Σ(Φmod2(n-1) + Θmod2n) and Σ((Φmod2(n-1) + Θmod2n)/n) for n -inf to inf and 0 to inf, -inf to 0.
As the observation of these states and their nature dictate (or perhaps just the model of their nature predicts), they collapse into a single state, |θ>. And so we see, |θ> = (Σ |i>)/n where |i> is the alternating of states comprised of Θ and Φ.
In addition, it would create a field equivalent to the infinite earth gaussian gravitational field as described abstractly below:
However, this discussion is about maps. I think we should return to that topic as these details are irrelevant. Their possibility of existing is the only relevance. That alone falls the philosophical hammer.