location map

English

Noun

location map (plural location maps)

1. A map that provides detailed information about a specific area or location.
   • 1905, Session Laws of the State of Washington, page 256:

     […] such occupant or claimant shall cause a location map to be made of each fishing location from the actual survey thereof, said map to contain a plat and descrption of said fishing location sufficient for its ascertainment and identification on the premises;

   • 1907, Supreme Court Appelate Devision, John J. Stephesn, John M. Foster, & C Earl Foster vs. The New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company, page 45:

     In either event, its tracks as located today, are not located on the line as shown on the location map of 1868.

   • 1913, George Wellington Pickels, Carroll Carson Wiley, Text Book on Railroad Surveying, page 14:

     The location map can often be made by adding the necessary data to the preliminary map, and then making a new tracing, omitting the contours and such other features that are not desired on the final map.

2. Synonym of locator map