Research Guides
How to Use and Understand Maps: Home
This short explanation of several map terms and concepts is a good place to start learning about maps.
What's in this Guide
- Definitions - for map, scale, latitude and longitude, township and range
- How-To - Browse for Maps for a Specific Country or Geographical Region, Interpret Library of Congress Map Call Numbers, Interpret Topographic Map Symbols
Related Guides and Links
Map Skills Bibliography and Other Cartographic Reference Tools
- Map use: reading, analysis, and interpretationby Phillip C. Muehrcke and Juliana O. Muehrcke
Suzzallo/Allen Stacks - Glossary of the mapping sciencesSuzzallo Ground Floor Reference
- An album of map projectionsby John P. Snyder and Philip M. Voxland
Suzzallo Ground Floor Reference
Suzzallo/Allen Stacks - About.com's Geography pageThis site has a number of good cartographic links.
- ESRI's GIS dictionaryA dictionary of terms used in the context of Geographic Information Systems.
