Books with title Reading Maps

Discover how maps were first created and how they have changed throughout history.Learning to read maps can help us find our way in the world. Maps are also important tools for understanding history, foreign lands, and a host of other subjects. Readers (Grades 3-5) will learn how to use lines of longitude and latitude, decipher map legends, and use a compass to orient a map in the real world.

Discover how maps were first created and how they have changed throughout history.Learning to read maps can help us find our way in the world. Maps are also important tools for understanding history, foreign lands, and a host of other subjects. Readers (Grades 3-5) will learn how to use lines of longitude and latitude, decipher map legends, and use a compass to orient a map in the real world.

Just as a car cant be started without the right key, many maps would be indecipherable without their legend, or key. Map keys show what pictures and colors on a map represent and often offer clues as to the kind of map. Readers learn how map keys can illuminate all kinds of maps, from street and political maps to economic and physical maps. Common map key symbols are discussed alongside full-color examples of many kinds of maps and keys to guide readers through the use and importance of each.

A Map is a weapon which is at times as valuable as a rifle. Map Reading is a necessary part of the education of every soldier.The object of reading a map is to enable the user to obtain all the information that the map' contains, such as the direction and position of roads and villages, the character of the country, the nature of topographical features, the kind of obstacles likely to be encountered, the facilities for or difficulties in the way of visibility, and in general all information likely to be useful for the purpose of moving over the country and conducting military operations therein. To obtain this information accurately and quickly demands complete familiarity with the signs and conventions used on maps, full acquaintance with the various problems that arise and constant practice in solving them.Mr. Dale's book deals with these questions in simple and clear language, and problems are approached from the practical point of view. The book deserves careful study, and should be a valuable help to those who wish to make themselves proficient map readers.The CompassThe ScaleContoursGradientsVisibilityConventional MapsRap References