A map is literally a picture or drawing of a place. Just like photos or drawings of animals, people and other things, a map can be a picture of a place really up close or really far away, but almost always from above the area shown. Pictures can be of different types - photos, watercolors, digital or computer art, 3D, etc.. There are also many types of maps that like a picture, highlight certain features of a place. All maps have certain characteristics in common. Every map uses symbols. A symbol is a graphic, color dot, line, etc. that stands for something else on a map. The symbols are explained in a map key or map legend.

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