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Interpretation of Topographical 4. Means of transport and communication
Sheets includes the following
• Diff erent means of transport and
Th e interpretation of a topographical sheet
communication as shown on the
can be done under the following heads.
topographical sheet, such as tracks,
1. Marginal information includes
footpaths, roads, railways, telegraph,
• Name of the topographical sheet
telephone lines and post offi ces
• Number of the topographical sheet • Correlation between the topography
• Area shown on the topographical sheet and the means of transport and
• Area covered by the topographical communication
sheet in square kilometres 5. Human settlements include the following
• Latitudinal and longitudinal extent of • Urban and rural centres
the topographical sheet • Th eir size and location
• Extent of the grid • Settlement patterns
• Scale of the topographical sheet • Special activities associated with the
• Special information, if any urban centres, such as industries, mining,
2. Relief features and drainage include the trading, administrative and defence
following • Density and pattern of the rural
• Contour intervals on the topographical settlements
sheet • Information on the land use and major
• Physical divisions on the topographical occupations
sheet
• Description of relief features in each Profi le of Survey Map 45 D/7
physical division Description of the Area covered by Survey
• Major landforms and their location Sheet No. 45 D/7 (Gujarat and Rajasthan)
• Drainage pattern District: Banaskantha and Sirohi
• Prominent water bodies Location: Latitude 24°20’ North
• General slope of the area Longitude: 72°25’ East
• Gradient and direction of important Th is region lies in western India on the
rivers borders of Rajasthan and Gujarat at
3. Prominent land uses include the the southern end of the Aravalli Hills,
following immediately north-east of Sheet 45 D/10.
• Various types of natural vegetation Relief
• Distribution patterns of natural Th e area is mainly flat except for the following
vegetation • Th e east central region where the hills rise
• Major types of possible land uses to almost 500 metres
• Major occupations possible in • Th e lower hills of the north-east corner
the region or the main sources of where the land slopes from north-east to
livelihood, such as lumbering, south-west in the northern half and east
livestock raising, farming, mining, to west in the southern portion of the map
industries and so on (indicated by the fl ow of the rivers)
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