In the next few paragraphs I will try to explain it, but if you feel that you lose me, just stop, have a break and come back to it. There is actually a whole scientific field called geodesy just on coordinate systems, so it can be a huge subject. Now this subject can be really, really complicated. Grid maps are inherently very simple and they usually use a cartesian system (X,Y system) that gives a point an X address and a Y address, resulting in an X,Y point.Ī grid system is only good if it can be used to describe that address universally, and for that we have coordinate systems. The purpose of the grid system is to give each point in the map an identifier, an address, by which we can refer to it by. If this is the first time you are joining the Map Reading series, you should start from the first post.Ī grid system on a map is usually square and is represented by drawn lines on the map creating those squares.
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