The document discusses cardinal directions (North, South, East, West), intermediate directions (Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Northwest), and symbols used on maps. Maps use symbols like dots, lines, triangles, and colors to represent places like gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and religious sites to help people locate and navigate to different locations.

1. INTRODUCTION Directions

2. usefulness Directions are useful to search and locate any place or way towards any land mark.

3. What are cardinal directions? North,South,East, and west are the main directions, or cardinal directions.

4. What are intermediate directions? Notice the spikes between the cardinal directions on the compass rose. These show the intermediate directions, or in-between directions. The intermediate directions are northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest.

5. Why do maps include symbols? A symbol is something that stands for something else. On a map common symbols include dots, lines, triangles, and colors.

7. Map symbols

8. Religious symbols

10. More Map Symbols Some of the symbols are for: Gas Stations Restaurants Hotels