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Sketch map   /skɛtʃ mæp/   Listen
Sketch map

noun
1.
A map drawn from observation (rather than from exact measurements) and representing the main features of an area.





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... horizontal planes intersecting the area subject to delineation. After attaining certain rude skill in such work, the student may advantageously make excursions to districts which he can see only in a hurried way. As he goes, he should endeavour to note on a sketch map the positions of the hills and streams and the directions of the roads. A year of holiday practice in such work will, if the tasks occupy somewhere about a hundred hours of his time, serve greatly to extend or reawaken what may be called the topographic sense, and enable him to place ...
— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler


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