maps

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Keys, legends, and symbols in maps

2012
This book introduces how to use a map's legend or key and presents some commonly used map symbols.

How to draw a map

2012
This book provides pointers for making your own maps including discussion of various map types and introduction to key map elements.

GPS and computer maps

2012
This book explains how the GPS, or Global Positioning System, works, and explores online map systems such as Google Maps and MapQuest.

Different kinds of maps

2012
This book introduces different kinds of maps and explores the advantages of each type.

Maphead

charting the wide, weird world of geography wonks
2011
Ken Jennings shares his enthusiasm of maps and discusses a number of related topics, such as map making and collecting, the National Geographic Bee, and Google Earth.

The Expeditioners and the treasure of Drowned Man's Canyon

2012
Explorer Alexander West smuggled half of a map to his children and then died under mysterious circumstances. It is now up to Kit, M.K., and Zander--the Expeditioners--to figure out the map and why so many people are looking for it.

The colonial caper

mystery at Williamsburg
2009
Grant and Christina are drawn into a colonial mystery involving a valuable map in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Mapping our world

2003
Discusses different types of maps, including discussions about map symbols, the compass rose, map-making, etc.

The whole world in your hands

looking at maps
1999
Explains what maps are and how to use them, discusses map symbols and their meanings, and includes maps of a house, community, city, state, country, and the world.

My town

2007
A young boy and his father explore the neighborhood and make a map showing where different things are located. Written in two reading levels for parents and children to read together.

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