Italy 1:50,000
- Bib ID:
- 6251445
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Geographical Section, cartographer, issuing body
- Related Online Resources:
- Map Index at National Library of Australia
- Scale:
- Scale 1:50,000 (E 6°00'--E 20°00'/N 39°00'--N 47°00').
- Description:
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- [London] : War Office, 1941-
- maps : colour ; 41 x 47 cm or smaller.
- Series:
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- Great Britain. Army. Middle East Forces. M.D.R. ; 578.
- GSGS (Series) ; 4229.
- Notes:
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- Topographic map series of Italy showing four classes of railroads, seven classes of roads and paths, and three types of internal boundaries are indicated. Relief shown by contours, hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by bathymetric tints.
- Set includes about 1,000 sheets with various issues of some, some prepared by U.S. Army Map Service with series designation Provisional G.S.G.S. 4229, or AMS M791, some reissued by various survey units of the Allied Forces in Italy (A.F.) some by Middle East Forces (M.D.R. 578).
- Each sheet is numbered and named individually.
- "Contours at 10, [25 or 50] metres interval." Some sheets issued by Allied Forces "layered; altitude tints in metres."
- "Meridians are based on the meridian of Rome, which is 12°27'7.1" east of Greenwich."
- Military grid.
- Based on Carta topografica of Istituto geografico militare. Some sheets covering the boundary between France and Italy are not reproduced and are omitted in numbering. This area is included in series G.S.G.S. 4471, France 1:50,000.
- Insets included on some sheets.
- Marginal diagrams on various sheets show index to adjoining sheets, compilation data, etc.
- Standard map series designation: M791.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1941
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Series M791
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 9999
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