Map Reading And Land Navigation

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Geographic representation of a portion of the earth's surface drawn to scale, as seen from above.

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Map

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Showing only the horizontal (flat) position of features.

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Planimetric Map

Front 3

two dimensional maps which represents horizontal (flat and vertical reliefs) positions and features.

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Topographic Maps

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3-dimensional topographic map reprinted on plastic material and form by heat and vacuum.

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Plastic Relief Maps

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reproduction of photograph upon grid lines, marginal data, places, and boundaries.

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Photo Map-

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Used for ground and air operations.

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Joint Operation Map

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a map on which the photographic imaginary of a standard photo map has been converted into interpretable colors and symbols

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Picto Map

Front 8

An assembly of aerial photograph to form a complete picture.

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Photomosaic

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is expressed as a fraction and gives the ratio of map distance to ground distance

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Scale

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To visualize the area of the earth surface. It represents the natural and manmade feature of the Earth.

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Map Symbol

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are standard drawing of map features and organized by the color

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Topographic Symbols

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found at the upper center margin, a map is named after its outstanding cultural or geographic features.

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sheet name

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found in the upper right margin and used as reference number assigned to each map

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Sheet number

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found on the upper left margin. A map series usually comprises a group of smaller maps at some scale designed to cover a particular geographic area.

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Series Name and Scale

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is found in the upper margin and in the lower margin, representing the age of the map

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Edition Number

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located in the center of the lower margin and in the lower margin use for determination of map distance to the corresponding ground distance with three different units of measures.

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Bar Scale

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in lower left margin, primary purpose is to list the procedures and reference, the method of compilation for used by technicians.

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Credit Note -

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are shown by rectangle. (Basic symbols for military unit and activities)

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Troop’s unit symbols

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used in conjunction either other symbols to signify a military unit activity or installation

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Branch arm of service and type

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used to identify the size of a unit or installation.

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Size of unit