Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Map Elements
- Compass Rose
- May show the four cordinal points or North,South,East,West. Sometimes when they will show intermeoliate points such as North East, South East, South West, and North West.
- Key + Legend Map
- Shows information needed to be able to understand the map. Show definition of symbols used on maps but sometimes includes scale or compass
- Quality map-easy to find , clear to read. Not to big but not to small.
- High Quality- clear and creative
- Labels
- Labels are the words that show something with a specific name ( streets or rivers)
- Labels can also be used to represent something if there is only one of it, instead of making up a symbol to just represent one thing.
- Map grid
- the map will be used to find locations. A grid and index is common in an atlas and on road maps.
Sometimes maps will use more of a basic grid with numbers or letters.
- The map grid is set of vertical and horizontal lines over laid on the map. Not all maps use a grid
and index .
- Scale
- Shows the map reader how the distance on the map compares to the distance in the real world.
- A scale shows the distance of something.
- Map Index
- A,B,C, Order
- numbers next to names of citys