From: Bruce Dayton
Monday, August 10, 2009, 3:49:18 PM, you wrote:
DF> Bob W wrote:
>> When you get off the road and out into the countryside following a map is a
>> lot more difficult. The main difficulty is figuring out where you are if you
>> do go astray.
DF> That's when it's "helpful" to be able to visualize the terrain features
DF> depicted on the map and match them up with the terrain features around
DF> you. I don't think it's something that can easily be taught, other than
DF> by taking someone to a spot, handing them a good topo map of the area,
DF> and pointing out the real terrain on the one hand and the map's
DF> depiction of that same terrain on the other. At the end, it seems like
DF> the map reader largely has to figure out how to do it on their own, and
DF> some folks just don't seem to "think visually".
Of course, this 'visualizing' thing doesn't work too well in
Kansas...no terrain features.
Ya got more than you think - creeks and rivers if nothing else ... and
creeks have gullys & valley's to run down. Valleys mean there's hills
and ridges for the valleys to be in between.
They may not be readily visible to an untrained eye, but you've got
terrain features.
And some "terrain features" are man made, like roads.
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