I’ve always seen SW as more of a fantasy saga. So while, in the real world, it wouldn’t necessarily jive with our concept of maps (which cover everything), in a mysterious fantasy galaxy, its a bit different. Lots of spots in the galaxy are uncharted, just like lots of spots on a map of the earth in a medieval fantasy film would be, or any other sort of older setting (like the wild west or the high seas or something).
I agree. My issue is that they state that Max Von Sydow’s map doesn’t match anything in their records. Then R2 rolls out at the end, and it matches. So R2 had a map that no one else in the galaxy had. So evidently all of that space was uncharted until some mysterious person made the map and gave it to R2, apparently WHILE he was turned off. It seems odd that no one reacts to this. At least when they find Luke’s lightsaber, characters at least wonder aloud where it came from.
How do you know it happened that way? It could have easily been given to R2 BEFORE he was turned off. There are a million possible explanations as with the lightsaber - and as with the lightsaber, the explanation isn’t really all that important to anything.
And there’s nothing to say that no one else in the galaxy had this map - in fact Kylo Ren says the opposite. Just that the Resistance doesn’t have it. Again, if you think in terms of modern day, this doesn’t necessarily make sense. But there’s nothing to suggest that the GFFA has internet, or even the ability to communicate across long distances. If you’re looking for technological logic in relation to our universe, you won’t find it anywhere, and that’s because it’s not sci-fi, it’s fantasy.