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reference map | The maps display the boundaries, names and unique identifiers of standard geographic areas, as well as major cultural and physical features, such as roads, railroads, coastlines, rivers and lakes. |
thematic map | These maps "can portray physical, social, political, cultural, economic, sociological, agricultural, or any other aspects of a city, state, region, nation, or continent". |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
GIS | geographic information system, |
distance scale | Map scale refers to the relationship (or ratio) between distance on a map and the corresponding distance on the ground. |
directional indicator | 'Negative Directional Indicator - -DI' A component of the average directional index (ADX) that is used to measure the presence of a downtrend. When the -DI is sloping upward, it is a signal that the strength of the downtrend is increasing. |
inset map | a small picture, map, etc |
legend | A key in a map |
latitude | the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes. |
longitude | the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes. |
Equator | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°. |
Prime Meridian | a planet's meridian adopted as the zero of longitude. |