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Definition of Map-reader
1. Noun. A person who can read maps. "He is a good map-reader"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Map-reader
Literary usage of Map-reader
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Military Geology and Topography: A Presentation of Certain Phases of Geology by Herbert Ernest Gregory (1918)
"A proficient map reader may deduce many significant and interesting ... The map
reader's object is to translate the map into the original field features. ..."
2. Surveying: With Sections on Map Reading, Military Sketching and Topographic (1919)
"... and qualifications to become a surveyor, topographical draftsman, map reader
and sketcher. Each man should then be interviewed personally concerning the ..."
3. The Psychological Process of Adjusting to Natural Disasters by Lewis Aptekar (1993)
"There was only one map reader for the 104 people who filled out ... After the
map reader confirmed that his property was within the proper boundary, ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1903)
"... map with figures denoting height above a given datum is the really practical
way of giving instant information to the map-reader of a small-scale map. ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"871 Prinz ; on formation of main geographical 444f; l'ortable map-reader for
field lines, XIII. ..."
6. Manual of Military Training by James Alfred Moss (1914)
"By means of this scale of MD 's on the map, the map reader can determine the
slope of any portion of the ground represented, that is, as steep as %° or ..."
7. Military Topography for the Mobile Forces: Including Map Reading, Surveying by Clarence Osborne Sherrill (1912)
"... nor can he be a perfect map reader or scout until to see a map is at once to
picture to himself intuitively the ground form from which the map is made. ..."
8. Practical Flying: Complete Course of Flying Instruction by William Gordon McMinnies, Henry Graeme Anderson (1918)
"... insomuch as they are more open and have fewer minor features to distract and
muddle the aerial map reader. Certain parts of France have this advantage, ..."
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