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語源

From road +‎ map.

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名詞

road map (plural road maps)

1. 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

2. (figuratively) A plan of action, laying out the future actions of participants.

   road map for peace

   • 2022 July 26, Mike Isaac, “‘Operating With Increased Intensity’: Zuckerberg Leads Meta Into Next Phase”, in The New York Times‎:

     On the agenda: a “work-athon” to discuss the road map for improving the main Facebook app, including a revamp that would change how users browse the service.

   • 2023 July 6, Pamela Paul, “What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?”, in The New York Times‎:

     Through her characters’ personal growth and interpersonal relationships, Hoover offers readers an emotional road map to recovery from imposter syndrome, domestic abuse, betrayal, victimization.

3. (originally computing, computer hardware) A structured representation of objects to display a development plan, 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.

派生した語

• → French: roadmap
• → German: Roadmap

Further reading

• road map on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

名詞

roadmap (plural roadmaps)

1. Alternative form of road map.
   • 1997, George Mulholland, John Fassett, Charles Ehrlich, Global Growth of Technology: Is America Prepared?, page 76:

     And our semiconductor industry, I think, is showing the way as to how roadmaps can be used for very general, very generic and very energizing programs of a very broad nature.

   • 2022, Robert Kanigel, Young Man, Muddled, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     In 1966, I could not have imagined my life playing out as it has. That I would do the work I do. Or love the women I loved. My life and work seemed laid out for me, the future a detailed roadmap. The map was wrong.

   • 2025 November 12, David Stubbings, “Rail reform bill: pledge to rebuild trust of passengers”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 6:

     She said: " We're not wasting time. While the cogs of Parliament continue to whir, we will continue to work on the rolling stock and infrastructure strategy, the national transport integrated strategy, and our accessibility roadmap.

動詞

roadmap (third-person singular simple present roadmaps, present participle roadmapping, simple past and past participle roadmapped)

1. (transitive) To construct a plan of action regarding (something).
   • 2002, Gary J. Chastek, editor, Software Product Lines: Second International Conference, SPLC 2, San Diego, CA, USA, August 19–22, 2002. Proceedings, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 335:

     More specifically, we believe that such an approach should be: […] Opportunistic in using available software but also planned when developing new software, with the latter carefully roadmapped.