The War Office

Manual of Map Reading,

Photo Reading

and Field Sketching,

Her Majesty's Stationery Office,

London 1939

 

 

INTRODUCTION

PART I MAP-READING

Chapter I MAP READING

Chapter II DEFINITIONS

Chapter III SCALES AND UNITS

Chapter IV CONVENTIONAL SIGNS

Chapter V RELIEF AND ITS REPRESENTATION

Chapter VI NORTH POINTS

Chapter VII SYSTEMS OF REFERENCE

Chapter VIII SETTING THE MAP AND MAKING POSITION ON IT

Chapter IX COPYING AND ENLARGING THE MAP

Chapter X THE SERVICE PROTRACTOR AND THE PRISMATIC COMPASS

Chapter XI ILLUSTRATION OF MILITARY REPORTS

 

PART II PHOTOREADING

Chapter XII PHOTO READING

Chapter XIII USE OF A SIMPLE STEREOSCOPE

 

PART III FIELD SKETCHING

PRINCIPLES OF FIELD SKETCHING

Chapter XIV PLANE TABLE SKETCHING

Chapter XV.PRISMATIC COMPASS SKETCHING

Chapter XVI. EYE AND MEMORY SKETCHING

Chapter XVIII. SKETCHING FROM AIR PHOTOGRAPHS

Chapter XIX.DESCRIPTION OF INSTRUMENTS USED IN FIELD SKETCHING

 

APPENDIXES

 

I. FINDING THE TRUE NORTH FROM SUN OR STAR

II. NIGHT MARCHING

III. SPELLING OF PLACE NAMES

IV. Making a Strip Mosaic

V. table of measurement.