Reading a Road Map

Lesson 88 Reading a Road Map

What You Will Learn new thing from American carmakers is a car that doesn’t A need road maps. A special computer in the car “talks” to a To use a road map to select routes satellite orbiting the earth. The computer and the satellite keep and estimate distance and travel track of where the car is every minute. This information is dis- time, and plan a family trip played on a screen in the car. As you drive the car, its location is shown on a map on the screen. The new technology is called a Reading Strategy Global Positioning System (GPS). Create a table like the one below listing four important uses for road Using Road Maps maps. Even with this new technology, however, we will still need road maps. Road maps are useful for planning what route to take on a How Road Maps are Useful trip, finding the location of places that are new to us, and estimat- 1. ing how long it will take to drive to a particular place. Road maps can also give information about things to see and do. 2. Reading a road map requires many of the skills you have prac- 3. ticed in earlier lessons in this book. You need to know how to find 4. direction and distance. Road maps have an index that uses a grid. Symbols are used on road maps to tell you such things as how large towns are, where you can stop to rest, and even points of interest along the way. You will often use the index first when you read a road map. Find the name of the place you want to visit. The index will tell you the cell in the grid where the place is located.

Using Your Skills

Practicing Map Skills

Use the legend of Map 1-11: Road Map of Part of New York State to answer these questions. 1. What kind of highways are the ones numbered 81 and 90 which cross near the center of the map?

interstate highways 2. What can you expect to find at a place marked with this symbol?

a campground

34 LESSON 8 Reading a Road Map Map 1-11 Road Map of Part of New York State

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Selkirk Beach 3 Orwell Ski Area SELKIRK SHORES Richland Highmarket Lake STATE PARK Pulaski Salmon River Rest Area Mexico Bay 4 Texas 8 13 Redfield Constable- Without Ontario Lycoming 11 ville A 104 7 13 Salmon Rest Rooms 8 Altmar Res. Oswego 5 4 Fernwood Osceola 6 New 104 Rest Area 5 Mexico 26 Haven 4 104 With Rest Rooms 104 6 Maple View 9 Fruit Valley 1 48 11 69 4 OSWEGO 3 WWeestst Leyden 3 5 Campground 104 11 Florence A Parish Williamstown 7 Minetto 481 12 8 Ava 5 BATTLE Oswego 11 183 Airport Sterling ISLAND Westdale Empeyville VaValleylley 176 Palermo 81 STATE Hastings 5 B PARK 5 3 Amboy 10 West Interstate Hannibal 3 12 8 Center 13 19 8 2 14 Branch 66 495 Sterling 3 Fulton Mallory 69 Highway 38 Granby 2 5 River 49 Central 11 Pt. Rock Center Lake Panther Little River Camden 6 7 12 Lake 285 26 Neatenwanta Square 8 Lee 1 191 U.S. Highway Hannibal 10 8 264 Pennellville 1 WWestest Center Center 48 Monroe Caughdenoy Taberg 1 191 4 4 9 State Highway 34 176 Hinmansville 49 Lee 20 Bernhards McConnellsville Brewerton Bay Blossvele FORT Victory Phoenix 7 R.7 North Vienna 10 Distance Ira Lamson ida Constantia STANWIX Lysander 481 e 11 Bay 16 NAT'L 46 12 n 4 Cleveland 69 Between O On MON. C 6 Euclid eid 49 7 16 Meridian Baldwinsville Clay a Jewell Mileage 11 neca Se 7 Lake VERONA BEACH Sylvan Beach Markers Cato 2 370 11 STATE PARK. Rome Belgium 8 Cicero 31 New 6 8 6 VVereronaona 46 Cross Plainville 4 3 South London 11 Riv 370 e Bridgeport Bay Beach 6 9 Lake r N. 12 Stanwix Conquest Jacks 31 Syracuse 3 26 18 Reef 6 690 3 431 298 Lakeport 31 5 365 23 3 Whitelaw 13 Oneida Verona Lowell 38 34 16 1 2 11 VVaalleylley 4 12 90 693 5 9 Onondaga Liver-Liver- 6 Collamer Durhamville Memphis Warners 15 90 5 9 pool 4 3 1 31 Jordan 17 173 695 N.Chittenango 4 31 Westmoreland 3 3 31C Solvay SYRACUSE Minoa Kirkville Canastota 1 Oneida VVerernonnon D 13 5 Camillus 5 5 5 6 Weeds- 6 173 6 5 port Fair- Westvale 5 2 GREEN 5 5 Sullivan Lenox Wampsville Sherrill 2 INDEX Hart Elbridge LAKES 8 mount 5 3 3 2 Chittenango 34 8 Lot 321 174 3 STATE PARK Vernon 38 Sennett Split Rock 3 Fayetteville Center 6 Auburn E-1 8 Skaneateles 9 3 2 13 46 8 5 175 Onondaga 173 5 Perryville Mottville Falls Manlius 10 12B Marcellus 6 Jamesville CHITTENANGO Stockbridge 14 Chittenango Falls Skaneateles 6 4 Nedrow 8 Oran FALLS Chittenango 5 STATE 14 Knoxboro 20 Cedarvale ONONDAGA Falls Siloam State Park E-4 7 6 6 81 8 11 PARK Fenner Augusta S. ONONDAGA Munnsville 9 Auburn 41 IND. RES. 91 Pompey 92 Peterboro Cleveland C-4 S Marietta Onondaga 26 Oriska k Center Cazenovia Pratts 34 a 9 Falls 38A n 6 E e 20 Hollow 7 Fulton B-2 6 a LaFayette 41A t 6 10 Fleming e 174 Amber Nelson Solsville l

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Owasco Lake Owasco Lake Pompey s 80 1 7 11 20 Hannibal B-1 6 MADISON Madison 6 38 Borodino Otisco Otisco 11A Delphi Falls Morrisville Owasco L 8 a 4 5 Wydkoff 13 k Lebanon F-5 e 15 7 11 West 4 Bouckville Niles Erieville 11 Eaton 6 34 23 Vesper Apulia 80 19 New New 12B Mexico A-3 19 12 Fabius Eaton Scipioville Hope Apulia 3 Woodstock 26 Scipio 80 1 Res. Onondaga E-3 14 Spaford 3 Station Hamilton 15 Center 8 19 Sher- Venice Kelloggsville Tully Sheds Parish B-3 wood 4 8 13 7 Randallsville East Center De- 80 Hubbards 38A Lebanon Hamilton F 18 Ruyter Georgetown Syracuse D-3 23 16 CAYUGA 41A 91 Poolville Scott Preble Cuyler 14 Texas A-3 16 11 Moravia 281 4 King FILLMORE GLEN Sempronius Earlville 4 STATE PARK TTruruxtonxton Otselic Weedsport D-1 Ferry Genoa Montville 41 90 7 Little 80

3. What do the numbers between two marks like these tell you?

how many miles it is between mileage markers 4. What is the difference in meaning between these two symbols?

The triangle with the circle around it means a rest area with rest rooms. The triangle by

itself means a rest area without rest rooms. 5. What could you expect to do at a place marked with this symbol?

go skiing 6. How many different kinds of highways are shown on the map?

three

LESSON 8 Reading a Road Map 35 Practicing Map Skills

Use Map 1-11, its legend, and the map index to answer these questions. 1. In which cell in the grid is each of the following located? a. Parish B-3 b. Cleveland C-4 c. Texas A-3 d. Chittenango Falls State Park E-4

2. What could you expect to do near Fabius (F-4) in January? go skiing

3. Plan a trip from Mexico to Weedsport using interstate highway as much as possible. About how far will you travel? 54 miles

4. Suppose that you average about 50 miles per hour on interstate highways. About how long will it take you to travel from the farthest point north shown on the map to the farthest point south?

about 1 1/2 hours

Practicing Map Skills

Use a highway map of your own state to plan a vacation trip. Start at your hometown and plot out a three-day trip of places you would like to visit. What points of interest would you see? What towns would you go through? How many miles would you travel over which highways? Think about where you might stay overnight, stop for gasoline, and good places to stop for food, too.

Answers will vary.

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