Method and electronic device for controlling map

The invention discloses a method and an electronic device for controlling a map. The method for controlling the map is applied to the electronic device with a display unit. The method for controlling the map includes: when a first map is displayed in a first area on the display unit and a selecting operation is obtained, responding to the selecting operation, and confirming whether a part of the first map, corresponding to a second area in the first area, is a second map; when a controlling operation is obtained, responding to the controlling operation, and generating and executing a control command so as to control the second map. Furthermore, the first map further comprises a third map which is corresponding to a third area in the first area which does not overlap the second area, and a boundary exists between the second map and the third map.