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Maps are used to navigate, and they often symbolize different landmarks (railroads, rivers, cities(large adn small), as well as forests, hills, highways, interstates, camping areas, dirt roads and a host of possible objects).

It would be extremly diffucult to represent each every item that a map may cover, as well as cluttering up the map. So the planners come up with simply symbols that they use to represent something.

For example, a forest may be represented by a shaded green area.

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