The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey: With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction — John Shaqi
The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey: With Brief Descriptions of Processes of ReproductionRidgway, John L.
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The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey: With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction
Ridgway, John L.
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Hospitals.
Jetties.
Land-grant lines.
Land-section Lines.
Levees.
Mains.
Mineral monuments.
Mine tunnels.
Mines.
National forests.
National parks.
Oil tanks.
Oil wells.
Open cuts.
Park boundaries.
Paths.
Pits.
Post offices.
Precinct lines.
Prospects.
Province lines.
Quarries.
Quarter-section lines.
Railroads, steam or electric.
Ranches.
Reservation boundaries.
Reservoirs.
Roads.
Ruins.
Schoolhouses.
Section comers.
Section Lines.
Settlements.
Shafts.
Streets.
Telegraph Lines.
Towns.
Township comers.
Townships.
Trails.
Tramways.
Triangulation stations.
Tunnels.
Villages.
Water mains.
Water wells.
Waterworks.
Windmills.
LETTERING.
GENERAL DIRECTIONS.
The cultural features are named on maps by letters of two distinct
styles--slanting gothic for public works and roman for habitations and
civil divisions. The size of the letters used should indicate in a
general way the relative importance of the feature or group to which
they are applied, but on some maps the county seats, State capitals,
and large cities may be distinguished by different symbols. The names
of civil divisions are lettered in sizes depending on their relative
grade and the size of the area or space in which the names are to
appear.
The features shown on a topographic map may be broadly separated into
four groups and are lettered as follows:
Civil divisions (countries, States, counties, townships, land grants,
reservations, cities, towns, villages, settlements, schools, lodges,
ranches, etc.), roman capitals or capitals and lower case.
Public works (railroads, tunnels, roads, canals, ferries, bridges,
fords, dams, mains, mines, forts, trails, etc.), slanting gothic
capitals (light) or capitals and lower case.
Hydrographic features (oceans, seas, gulfs, bays, lakes, ponds,
rivers, creeks, brooks, springs, wells, falls, rapids, marshes,
glaciers, etc.), italic capitals or capitals and lower case.
Hypsographic features (mountains, ranges, peaks, plateaus, cliffs,
buttes, canyons, valleys, peninsulas, islands, capes, etc.), upright
gothic capitals (light) or capitals and lower case.
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