Terminology
Using Cartoj effectively requires several concepts that require more explanation.
Map
This is the elephant in the room. Cartographers almost universally refer to visualizations of spatial data as a map.
Clojure users already use map for two other concepts. First, map as function application for functional programming. Second map as the associative data structure denoted with curly braces {}.
Cartoj tries to use the term “interactive map” to disambiguate. Yes carto/interactive-map is more verbose, but less confusing than the alternative. We don’t need a third _map!