Question

Answer in short:
(1) Differentiate between scale based maps and cultural maps.​

Answer 1

Answer:

(i) Small scale maps show a larger area in less detail. (ii) They are wall maps, or atlas maps. (iii) They show important features like mountains, plateaus, continents and countries. (iv) Scale may be 1 cm = 100 km.

Answer 2

Answer:

Cultural mapping, also known as cultural resource mapping or cultural landscape mapping, refers to a wide range of research techniques and tools used to "map" distinct peoples' tangible and intangible cultural assets within local landscapes around the world.

scale map :-

The scale of a map is the ratio of a distance on the map to the corresponding distance on the ground. This simple concept is complicated by the curvature of the Earth's surface, which forces scale to vary across a map. Because of this variation, the concept of scale becomes meaningful in two distinct ways.