Road map
A road map is a thematic map, the course of the road and all the important information related to the road, is the main focus.
Output form
Street level maps can usually be (usually as part of a chart series ) issued as a folded piece of card. Are the cards distributed across multiple sheets and bound into a book, then one speaks of a book plan, a road atlas or road atlas.
Often street maps are also used as a promotional tool.
Map content
Road network
The streets as topographic objects themselves are depending on their classification and significance usually
- With blue, red or purple fillings and triple lines for highways
- With red or orange fillings and double lines for major roads
- Yellow or orange fillings and double lines for roads
- White, gray or brown fillings and double lines for roads
Shown.
Additionally, the numbering of the street is given. In general, only the streets are numbered, which are marked accordingly in the locality ( Europe roads, motorways or highways ).
Under construction road sections are presented as Signaturabwandlung, most with details of the time provided for completion.
Details on distance ( in kilometers mostly newer cards, older cards from the Anglo-American culture in miles) be - triangles between highway exits, indicated crossroads, junctions and places. This system, which utilizes unique ( usually triangular or pin-like ) signatures is often differentiated. Due to the coloring ensures that the metrics can be clearly assigned. Larger steps (eg between motorway junctions ) facilitate the addition of the subsections.
Additional information
The map image is complemented (again depending on the quality and scale of the map ) by:
- Labeling of Places
- Numbering of the highway exits
- Steeper gradients,
- Tunnel,
- Gas stations,
- Service areas,
- Parking
- Ferries,
- Mainline stations
- Airports
- Construction sites,
- Congestion vulnerable sections
- Temporal navigability of road passes
- Accident black spots
- Stationary radar measurement systems
- Notes on offices of automobile clubs
- Border crossings
- Tollbooths
Points of Interest
Other supplements may Tourist Information ( Point of Interest) including:
- Sights,
- Landscapes, in particular, valuable, protected landscapes such as national parks and the like,
- Interesting scenic road sections,
- Scenic Routes,
- Museums, cinemas and theaters,
- Accommodation, campsites,
- Bathing places,
- Information about winter sports
Be.
Topography
The residual topography (railways, forests, water bodies, elevation data, and others) occurs because the road map is a thematic map in the background or fall away. Experts speak of generalization. Usual standards such maps are 1:200,000 or smaller.
History
The earliest road map of Central Europe is the 1500 on the occasion of the Holy Year Romwegkarte printed by Erhard Etzlaub. The card with the title This is the Rome Way of meylen to meylen with material points recorded by eyner stat to the other by deutzsche Landt. , Like all cards Etzlaubs gesüdet (south is at the top ), three directions are east, lunch and Undergang labeled. The road is shown and the distances between the cities are points in the distance by one each German mile ( 7.4 km ) measurable.