Map KO Flashcards
(13 cards)
Blue line
motorway
orange line
b road
Grey line with pink circle or square
railway or railway station
Pink line
a road
Green dotted line
footpath
Hamlet RURAL
A very small settlement ten to a hundred people no services
Village RURAL
A Small settlement 100 to 2500 people
town URBAN
a big settlement 2500 to 1 hundred and Fifty thousand people Some services including church pub post office doctors surgery
City URBAN
A very big settlement over 150,000 people many services including universities railway stations et cetera
Scale on OS maps
Scale means how much the world has shrunk to fit a map 1:2500 Means the world is shrunk 25,000 * 4 centimetres equals 1 kilometre on this map
4 Figure references
Always look at bottom left hand corner of square remember along the corridor and up the stairs
Six figure grid references
Divide the big square into 100 little squares write the fourth reggae grid reference EG 62 dot dot 33 dot dot then add an extra number to show how far into the square you are EG 625 333
