Map symbols for roads and road related features on Latvian topographic maps of the 1920s and earlier. From the book
Apzimejumi Merniecibas un Kulturtechniskiem Planiem
(Legends from Surveying and Cultural-Technical Plans)
Ministry of Agriculture
Riga, Latvia, 1928.
Original plate with translation to English below:
Public Roads:
1) a, b – carriageway edge
2) carriageway:
c – stone or macadamized, d – wood, e – gravel, f – unbuilt
3) g – culverts
4) h – stone bridge
5) i – rail bridge
6) k – road shoulder
7) l – ditches
8) m – greenery / vegetation
a – entrenchment
b – embankment
c – slope to one side
d – marsh dams
e – ditches
Winter road
Trail
Private roads
1) a, b – outer edge
2) carrageway:
c – unbuilt, d – stone or macadamized, e – wood, f – gravel;
3) g – culverts
4) h – wooden bridge
5) i – ditch
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A scarce booklet of map symbols that appears in only one library (Berlin State Library) according to the global library catalog WorldCat. I will post more symbols from this booklet in the near future, as well as a PDF of the entire booklet.
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