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A list of sites and pictures of ways to read maps and find information on different maps.
Updated on Oct 20, 09
Created on Oct 20, 09
Category: Schools & Education
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Jon Santore's List: Map Hotlist
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A map is literally a picture or drawing of a place. Just like photos or drawings of animals, people and other things, a map can be a picture of a place really up close or really far away, but almost always from above the area shown. Pictures can be of different types - photos, watercolors, digital or computer art, 3D, etc.. There are also many types of maps that like a picture, highlight certain features of a place
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One of the most complete listing of maps of our country is at the United States Geological Survey
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- Map Scale:
Defines the relationship between the measurements of the features as shown on the map and as they exist on the Earth's surface. Scale is generally stated as a ratio or fraction--1:24,000 or 1/24,000. The numerator, customarily 1, represents map distance, and the denominator, a large number, represents horizontal ground distance. Thus the scale 1:24,000 states that any unit, such as 1 inch or 1 centimeter on the map represents 24,000 of the same unit on the ground
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