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Brazil's national map vocabulary.
Also known as: Brazilian map symbols
The set of conventional signs used on the Brazilian national topographic map series.
Define the features shown on the Brazilian national topographic series.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
Follow the four-colour convention shared across most national series — blue water, green vegetation, brown relief, black construction — which is why a Brazilian sheet is broadly legible to a reader trained on a European one.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
Carry signs for features that a European legend has no need of, among them seasonal watercourses, distinct forest types and the extraction sites of specific minerals.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
A closed set of point, line and area signs in black, blue, green and brown, with hydrography in blue, vegetation in green and relief in brown.