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Recreation Facilities of the State of Rhode Island In 1935.

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By means of numerous line drawings, a base map could easily be converted into a pictorial map similar to the one shown above.

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Chapter 20 RELIEF AND AERIAL MAPS

AERIAL MAPS, whether actual photographs, drawings, or photographs of models give a bird's-eye view of buildings, roads, trees, mountains, cities, etc. Relief maps are best known for their use in showing elevations and surface undulations of a country, but may be used effectively also in presenting statistical data.

Talley, Capt. B. B., Engineering Applications of Aerial fir* Terrestrial Photogrammetry , Pitman Publishing Company, New York City

The Amrricnn SrhooU of Oririitnl Rcicnrch. Nfw Havrn. Connrcticut.

Clay Map from Mesopotamia, Dated About 2500 B. C.

This is perhaps the oldest known map. On it are marked positions of cities, indicated by circles; mountains, indicated by scales; and rivers, indicated by wavy lines.

RELIEF AND AERIAL MAPS

REFERENCES ON MAP PROJECTION

Hinks. A. R., Map Projections, Cambridge University Press, England. 1922

Wnrrrn H ManniiiK. A National Plan Study Brief." Landsca()« Architecture. July 1923. American A»iociation of Land»cape Architects. Cambridge. Mass.

Relief Map of the United States.

1. The purpose of this type of relief map is to aid the study of the geographical features of