Are you wondering what the difference is between map tacks and push pins? Well, after doing some research on just that subject I found that they both have many uses and in some cases can be used interchangeably.Push pins are great for tacking stuff to cork boards like pictures and other crafty things. Kids use them a lot in their rooms to mount posters to walls and stick their photos on their spaces they have created for such things. I have found some very kewl push pins in lots of shapes and pretty colors. I found pewter push pins that are really neat for speial uses. They can be plain boring colors or neon brite colors. There are also push pins with round flat heads you can write on.
Map tacks, or map flags, or sometimes even map pins... are very diversified and can be used for bunches of things. Art galleries buy the numbered pins to identify artists work. Planners use map pins on schematics to identify key tasks in a project. I was looking at some different map tacks and it seems there is one for everything you can think of and more on a map. You use different colors and shapes to denote different features.
Some type of map tacks are:
- Erasable map pins
- Small map pins
- Medium Map pins
- Large map pins
- Medium pins with dots, stripes or crosses on the pin head
- Flag and pennant map pins
- Large colored push pins
- Numbered map pins
Of course you can also think of other uses for map tacks and push pins, like putting them on the teacher's chair (common in my day and age at school), using them for land mines in areas you don't want intruders sneaking in and many more.
All UPSable
