

But “wiping something off the map” already is a metaphor.
If you literally “wipe something off a map” it would mean that you walk up to a map, take out a piece of cloth or similar wiping implement, and wipe the map until whatever you want to “wipe off” is no longer recognizable.
Which I guess is bad in terms that you’ve just damaged a piece of navigational equipment, not nothing really happened aside from that
If they do this then they should at least be consistent and remove every mention of the words Straight, Bi, Pan and Trans as well
Taking your Biplane for a transatlantic flight, straight to the Panama canal? That’s a paddlin