Importance of Maps and Telephone Directory

Maps plays an important role especially when you are going at a place which is unknown to you as they provides vital information regarding key places in the city or state you are traveling to. If you are staying in a place which you are not so familiar than you can also take help of telephone directory which contains vital phone numbers of key places like you are residing in Gurgaon and if you want any particular number of a significant place in Gurgaon than it is very likely that you will find the contact details in the Gurgaon Telephone Directory the same way you can find places through map of Gurgaon. Maps provide information like geographic location, physical characteristics, vegetative structure, flora and fauna, soil structure, climate profile, latitude and longitude etc. The maps are used not only for navigation purpose but they are also used in colleges and schools for educational purpose over the period of time. Maps can also be found in offices and homes for reference to give people visiting the office or your home. Earlier these maps used to come in paper-printed and in two dimensions which are now taken over by technical and digitally created maps which not only provides the latest information but also provide a 3 dimension look. There is a complete science which works behind the creation of map, this science or technique is known as cartography. Maps are created by keeping geographical, political and many other aspects all together. Mostly maps are created on a scale; the denomination which is used is like 1:10,000 which means one unit displayed on map is equal to 10,000 unit of physical land. Maps are also of different types like maps which display land areas are commonly known as physical maps and political maps. In political maps boundaries of city, state or country are displayed for instance maps show boundary between India and Pakistan or maps showing boundary between Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal. All these maps come under the category of political maps. On the contrary maps which depict geographical features like deserts, rivers, mountains or plateaus are commonly known as Physical maps. These maps are commonly sold as maps of the cities as in if you are looking for map depicting Gurgaon region than you can find various Gurgaon Map in any local stationary shop which contains vital information about Gurgaon. You can find maps online of various cities like Gurgaon, Delhi etc. just Google Map Gurgaon, you can find lot of websites which are offering map online and that to free of cost. The same way you can search for Gurgaon directory online.