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Sketch map

noun

A map drawn from observation (rather than from exact measurements) and representing the main features of an area.

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"Sketch map" Quotes from Famous Books

... be a very good plan, Zaki. We should find it very difficult to explain who we were, if we met any Dervishes at Abu Klea. I will have a look at my sketch map; we have found it very good and accurate, so far; and with that, and the compass the General gave me before starting, we ought to have no difficulty in striking the river, as the direction is only a little ...

— With Kitchener in the Soudan - A Story of Atbara and Omdurman • G. A. Henty

... narrow waters, where there was no chance of the Russians eluding Togo and little room for manoeuvring. The strait in which the battle took place is really about as wide as the North Sea between Harwich and the Hook of Holland. (See accompanying sketch map.) ...

— Famous Sea Fights - From Salamis to Tsu-Shima • John Richard Hale

... the youngsters behave? Well, I'll tell you when I see you. They were fine, and that's all about it. They send their love, and so do I, and some or all of us will see you with the first boat north from Skagway. Rob has a full diary, and John a good sketch map, so they'll be loaded for you ...

— Young Alaskans in the Far North • Emerson Hough

... bend...." The General's finger stabbed down on the sketch map the scouts had prepared days earlier. "I've been thinkin' that a vedette posted right here could give us perhaps a few minutes of warning ahead when anything started to swim into this fishnet of ours. General Forrest wants some ...

— Ride Proud, Rebel! • Andre Alice Norton

... horizontal planes intersecting the area subject to delineation. After attaining certain rude skill in such work, the student may advantageously make excursions to districts which he can see only in a hurried way. As he goes, he should endeavour to note on a sketch map the positions of the hills and streams and the directions of the roads. A year of holiday practice in such work will, if the tasks occupy somewhere about a hundred hours of his time, serve greatly to extend or reawaken what may be called the topographic sense, and enable him to place ...

— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler