Raster maps have quite a few decades of development in their paper form. As such they have reach quite a high level of usefulness.
Vector maps are still developing and don't have the same amount of development time as raster maps. That said they are still competing with raster maps fairly well. When the vector maps have the same information as the raster amps they do need more work ... because when zoomed in you are looking at one raster map ... when zoomed out you are looking at a different raster map - this is an advantage of the vector map - it can contain many raster maps in the one package ... and do it in less memory.
Both the above map types can be placed on an electronic device .. even your camera could be used to display the information, most cameras won't do vector but they should do raster.
The GPS/smart phone with map/s has the advantage of 'knowing where you are' and can display that info (usually by placing you in the center of the map/display). Routing can be another advantage of the GPS/smart phone map/s. And searching for a place can be much easier using a GPS/smart phone with map/s.
Given time (at least years) vector maps will surpass raster maps. Until then a good raster map at the right level of scale will probably be more usefull than a vector map.
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