In this activity, students will develop and be able to manipulate a grid coordinate system on a 7.5 minute series local topographic map. Students will learn to use the grid coordinate protractor (GCP) to plot azimuth values as a means of indicating direction on these maps; they will also learn to perform simple map traverses.
In this chapter we develop student’s appreciation of the ‘first order’ basic spatial concepts of location, scale, adjacency, distance, and projection as well as the variety of ways by which they can be ‘measured’ in different ‘spaces.
