2. What is a map?
• A map is a two-dimensional drawing of an area.
3. What is a map?
• A map is a two-dimensional drawing of an area.
• Maps can show the countryside, a town, a country
or even the whole world.
4. What is a map?
• A map is a two-dimensional drawing of an area.
• Maps can show the countryside, a town, a country
or even the whole world.
• They are used to help plan routes from one place to another, or
to find certain features such as castles or hills.
5. What is a map?
• Different types of map are used for different places depending on
whether you are walking, driving or even flying somewhere.
• Maps can be on paper or on a mobile phone, tablet or computer.
6. Look at the next 4 maps
and answer the questions
under each map.
11. Answers
So where are these maps from and what do they
show?
Map One: An old map of Kettering showing the surrounding villages
Map Two: is Northern Ireland and the map shows the main towns and roads.
Map Three: is a Satellite Image of the World taken in 2001.
Map Four: is an ordnance survey map of Northampton and the map shows
surrounding villages, roads and map symbols.
15. If you can read a map
… you will never be
lost for long!
16. Map Symbols
These symbols are used on Ordnance Survey maps to indicate specific features. The maps
are very detailed and so there is not enough room to write down every feature in words so
symbol are used instead.
To help the map reader to understand what the symbols actually mean there is a key (or
legend) on the map.
17. More map symbols: what do you think these
symbols represent?
Draw the
symbols and
note down
what you
think they may
represent.
