diff --git a/src/hdmf/build/map.py b/src/hdmf/build/map.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5267609f5..000000000
--- a/src/hdmf/build/map.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# this prevents breaking of code that imports these classes directly from map.py
-from .manager import Proxy, BuildManager, TypeSource, TypeMap  # noqa: F401
-from .objectmapper import ObjectMapper  # noqa: F401
-
-import warnings
-warnings.warn('Classes in map.py should be imported from hdmf.build. Importing from hdmf.build.map will be removed '
-              'in HDMF 3.0.', DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)