How to Think Like a Mapmaker Using Symbols to Make Your Points
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How to Think Like a Mapmaker
Using Symbols to Make Your Points
Which One Is a Symbol?
A.
B.
It Depends on How You Use It
Ornamental Pattern
Route 66
Road Symbol
Topographical Map Symbols
Topographical Map Symbols--Variations
Mountain range
City or village
Swamp
Forest
Some Military Map Symbols
Troop movements
Battle site
Radar stations
Forts
Maps withTopographical Features: “Fantasy”
Maps withTopographical Features: “Reality”
“Topo” Sketch Map of Bull Run
Adding the 4th Dimension: Time
Maps are often used to show changes that occur in a particular area over time, especially when politics are involved…
“The Growth of Prussia into the German Empire”
Other Map Symbols
What might be the theme of a map that uses these symbols?
Miyama: A Japanese Village of Ceramicists
Babylonian Map (about 700-500 BC)
Cuneiform text
Graphic representation Babylon
Tigris and Euphrates
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