road map

See also: roadmap

English

road +‎ map

road map (plural road maps)

A map with a visual representation of roads used for automobile travel and navigation. A road map may contain other relevant data, such as terrain or railway lines.
Coordinate term: street map
(figuratively) A plan of action, laying out the future actions of participants.
road map for peace
(originally computing, computer hardware) A structured representation of objects to display a development plan. Road maps are used in business for strategic planning and communications.
- 1999, Marc Hamilton, Software Development: Building Reliable Systems, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 236:
  CPU speeds continue to increase with no end in sight. For instance, Sun's UltraSPARC processor roadmap, shown in Figure 16-2, show CPU speed increasing from 143 MHz in 1995 to 1.5 Ghz in 2002, roughly doubling every year as predicted by Moore's Law.
- 2008, Hans-Bernd Kittlaus; Peter N. Clough, Software Product Management and Pricing, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 77:
  In the software business, a product roadmap gives an overview how a product is going to develop over the strategic timeframe of up to 5 years in terms of new releases or versions, their schedules and major themes.

a map with a visual representation of roads used for automobile travel and navigation

Chinese:
Mandarin: 路線圖／路线图 (lùxiàntú), 道路圖／道路图 (dàolùtú)
Danish: vejkort n
Dutch: wegenkaart (nl) f or m
Esperanto: vojmapo
Faroese: vegakort n
Finnish: tiekartta (fi)
French: carte routière (fr) f
German: Straßenkarte (de) f, Autokarte (de) f
Greek: οδικός χάρτης (el) m (odikós chártis)
Icelandic: vegakort n
Irish: treochlár m, léarscáil bhóithre f, mapa bóithre m
Italian: carta turìstica f, cartina (it) f, mappa stradale
Japanese: 道路地図 (どうろちず, dōro chizu)
Latin: itinerārium n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: veikart n, vegkart n
Nynorsk: vegkart n
Persian: راهنامه‎ (fa) (rāhnāme), نقشه راه‎ (naqše-ye rāh)
Polish: mapa drogowa (pl) f
Portuguese: mapa rodoviário m
Romanian: hartă rutieră f
Russian: доро́жная ка́рта (ru) f (doróžnaja kárta), ка́рта доро́г f (kárta doróg)
Spanish: mapa de carreteras f, hoja de ruta f
Swedish: vägkarta c, bilkarta c
Ukrainian: доро́жня ка́рта f (doróžnja kárta)

plan of action

Armenian: ճանապարհային քարտեզ (hy) (čanaparhayin kʿartez)
French: feuille de route (fr) f, roadmap (fr) f
German: Roadmap f
Greek: οδικός χάρτης (el) m (odikós chártis)
Irish: plean oibre m
Italian: tabella di marcia, piano d'azione
Norwegian:
Bokmål: veikart n, vegkart n
Nynorsk: vegkart n
Russian: план (ru) m (plan), програ́мма (ru) f (prográmma), доро́жная ка́рта (ru) f (doróžnaja kárta), план де́йствий m (plan déjstvij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: а̀кцӣјскӣ пла̑н m
Roman: àkcījskī plȃn m