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In addition, many transport companies, such as train and airline companies, have published "road" maps in the past, in their case usually calling them "route map". In the past, these were usually published on print paper; since the advent of the internet, transport companies have used it increasingly
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for each major route. One hundred strip road maps are shown, accompanied by a double-sided page of text giving additional advice for the map's use, notes on the towns shown, and the pronunciations of their names. The roads were measured using a
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is the oldest known map of (a part of) Europe preserved in its original form. It is a fragment of a map drawn onto a leather portion of a shield by a Roman soldier in c. 235 AD. It depicts several towns along the northwest coast of the
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Printed road maps commonly include an index of cities and other destinations found on the map; smaller-scale maps often include indexes of streets and other routes. These indexes give the location of the feature on the map via a
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map used to show how to get to a single specific destination (such as a business), to a complex electronic map, which may layer together many different types of maps and information – such as a road map plotted over a
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to show their route maps instead of paper material in order to lower costs. Many old route maps are now considered collectible items and command increasing prices on auction sites and houses and on antique stores.
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and recreational facilities, hotels and restaurants, as well as airports and train stations. A road map may also document non-automotive transit routes, although often these are found only on
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These pages established the 8-furlong mile as the national unit of distance and the one-inch-to-a-mile mapping standard, which was used by the British Ordnance Survey until the 1970s".
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produced its first road map in 1905, a hand-drawn route on linen, depicting roads in Staten Island, N.Y. A year later, AAA became the official sponsor of "
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Highway maps generally give an overview of major routes within a medium to large region ranging from a few dozen to a few thousand miles or kilometers.
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Road maps come in many shapes, sizes and scales. Small, single-page maps may be used to give an overview of a region's major routes and features.
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typically present a dynamically generated display of a region, with its scale, features, and level of detail specified by the user.
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is a collection of road maps covering a region as small as a city or as large as a continent, typically bound together in a book.
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was founded in 1909. These three companies produced most of the approximately eight billion free maps handed out at American
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Inset maps may be used to provide greater detail for a specific area, such as a city map inset into a map of a
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over a period of about 1920 to 1980. The practice of offering free maps diminished considerably in the 1970s.
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Street maps usually cover an area of a few miles or kilometers (at most) within a single city or extended
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is sometimes characterized as the earliest known road map. Drawn around 1160 BC, it depicts routes along
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or Spiral binding is a popular format for road atlases, to permit lay-flat usage and to reduce
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of a given nation, or a single continuous region in high detail split across several pages.
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Akerman, James R. (2002). "American Promotional Road Mapping in the Twentieth Century".
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Map that displays roads and transport links rather than natural geographical information
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and other electronic maps in the 21st century, the use of printed maps is waning.
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An alternative to, and in many ways the precursor of the road map, was the
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Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries - Marlia Mundell Mango - Google Books
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The nine lives of John Ogilby: Britain's master map maker and his secrets
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is included showing the distance between pairs of cities. Since it is a
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information. It is a type of navigational map that commonly includes
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Gallup Map finds new path in a GPS world - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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3D satellite image (a viewing mode frequently used within
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When Maps Reflected Romance of the Road - New York Times
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was founded in 1926 by former Rand McNally employees.
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New Automobile Road Map of New York City & Vicinity
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Cartographies of Travel and Navigation – Google Books
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Many motoring organisations, especially those in the
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Road maps can also vary in complexity, from a simple
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Road maps often distinguish between major and minor
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Index

Road atlas
Roadmap
OpenStreetMap
Street Map (album)

Trans-African Highway network
map
roads
natural geographical
political boundaries
political map
points of interest
parks
transit maps
History of cartography

Tabula Peutingeriana
Turin Papyrus Map
dry river beds
Thebes
Ancient Egypt
Dura-Europos Route map
Black Sea
Tabula Peutingeriana
Cursus publicus
Roman
Europe
North Africa
West Asia
Mediterranean Sea

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