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Card 6

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The scale of your map is 1: 50 000. There is a distance of 30 km between two towns. How far will this be in cm on your map?

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Card 7

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What is a grid? Look closely at your Ordnance Survey map and you will see that it is divided into a series of squares. Together, these squares are known as a grid and they help you to locate the features within them. Every square on your Ordnance Su

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Card 8

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Four-figure grid references Where an easting and a northing line meet in the left hand corner of a square, you can put these two numbers together to form a four-figure grid reference. It's important to remember that the easting comes before the nort

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Card 9

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Six-figure grid references are useful, but on their own they are not enough to pinpoint a particular location in the country. Ordnance Survey use many maps to cover the country and the same six-figure reference could be used to find many different pl

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