print email comment close Topographic Map Symbols URL: http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/booklets/symbols/reading.html Description: This online guide has three brief descriptive sections: "What is a Topographic Map?"; "Reading Topographic Maps"; and "Topographic Map Information," which includes information on buying topo maps. Explains map symbols for elevation; boundaries; land surface features; water features; buildings and related features; and roads, railroads, and transmission lines and pipelines. From the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Extra Keywords cbrewrite Library of Congress Subject Headings: Map reading Maps Topographic maps LII Database Information: Record 14257 created by Dana Evans on 10/10/1999 Last modification on 09/22/2009 Published: 10/10/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/14257