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A long thin country's map legend.
Also known as: Chilean map symbols, IGM Chile legend
The set of conventional signs used on the Chilean national topographic map series.
Define the features shown on the Chilean national topographic series.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
Carry an unusually detailed set of glacier and volcano signs, because a legend covering the country has to serve terrain from the Atacama to Patagonian ice in one symbol set.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
Produced by a military geographic institute rather than a civil agency, an arrangement common in South America and one that shaped which features were mapped first.
Contexts: Navigation, Maps
Small filled triangles for volcanic cones, hachured and stippled outlines for glacier and permanent snow, blue line work for watercourses and brown contour lines for relief, on the standard four-colour scheme.