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Maps can display information about a topic through different visual representations like color, symbols, charts, and dot densities. General reference maps show basic information like physical features, political boundaries, roads, and populated areas to help locate places. Physical maps depict natural elements like bodies of water, elevations, and terrain using colors. Political maps locate populations, roads, and administrative areas. Thematic maps focus on a single topic, using physical, statistical, or interpreted data on subjects such as land use, population, resources, and weather. Land use maps reflect the types and economic uses of lands.

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Maps can display information about a topic through different visual representations like color, symbols, charts, and dot densities. General reference maps show basic information like physical features, political boundaries, roads, and populated areas to help locate places. Physical maps depict natural elements like bodies of water, elevations, and terrain using colors. Political maps locate populations, roads, and administrative areas. Thematic maps focus on a single topic, using physical, statistical, or interpreted data on subjects such as land use, population, resources, and weather. Land use maps reflect the types and economic uses of lands.

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A map created to display information about a topic or theme.

Themes can be shown with


a choropleth (color), a scaled-symbol, charts, or dot-densities.

General Reference Maps- maps that show a variety of basic information on one map. Some
examples are physical maps, political maps, road maps, tourist maps and classroom maps. They
are usually a summary of the landscape and their primary purpose is to aid in the discovery of a
location.

Physical maps

Physical map or otherwise called as relief maps are the one that shows the
natural characteristics of a form of land and bodies of water that are found in a
particular area. In finer terms, it is a visual representation of how our
earth looks from space.

In this map, the water bodies like oceans, rivers, lakes and ponds are depicted
in a blue colour. Likewise, brown colour indicates mountains and plateaus,
different shades of green are used to represent elevations on a physical map.
These maps help to understand, the range of elevation in the region,
mountains or plateaus in the region, rivers in that region, direction in which
the river flows and so forth.
Political map

Political Map is described as a map used by the travellers, tourists or other


persons to locate various places, population, roads, highways, etc. of a
particular area. The primary characteristic of political maps is that it shows
administrative subdivisions of the world, or other geographical regions such as
continents, countries, state, cities, towns and villages.

Thematic (Special Purpose) Maps- maps that usually highlight only one kind of information on one
particular topic. Examples are land use, population, recreation, resources and weather maps. The
details may be physical, statistical, measured, or interpreted, and may require special knowledge
by the map user.

Landuse.

Land use Maps

maps that reflect the land resources and types of land use in the national economy. Land use maps ar
e subdivided into landresource, land in service, and agricultural land use maps
Land use maps are the basis for the registration and qualitative and economic evaluation (cadastres)
of land resources. Theyshow the relationship between lands in service and natural conditions, knowle
dge of which is essential for scientific planningof the rational use of land.

Recreation

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