Difference between plan and map in survey?

Answer 1

(a)A map is a visual representation of an area-a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes.

Plans are a set of two-dimensional diagrams or drawings used to describe a place or object, or to communicate building or fabrication instructions. Usually plans are drawn or printed on paper, but they can take the form of a digital file.

(b) Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or imagined, without regard to context or scale; e.g. Brain mapping, DNA mapping, and extra-terrestrial mapping.

Plans are often for technical purposes such as architecture, engineering, or planning. Their purpose in these disciplines is to accurately and unambiguously capture all the geometric features of a site, building, product or component. Plans can also be for presentation or orientation purposes, and as such are often less detailed versions of the former. The end goal of plans is either to portray an existing place or object, or to convey enough information to allow a builder or manufacturer to realize a design.

(c)Many but not all maps are drawn to a scale, allowing the reader to infer the actual sizes of, and distances between, depicted objects. A larger scale shows more detail, thus requiring a larger map to show the same area.

Plans are usually scale drawings, meaning that the plans are drawn at specific ratio relative to the actual size of the place or object. Various scales may be used for different drawings in a set. For example, a floor plan may be drawn at 1:50 (or 1/4"=1'-0") whereas a detailed view may be drawn at 1:25 (or 1/2"=1'-0"). Site plans are often drawn at 1:200 or 1:100

(d)To communicate spatial information effectively, features such as rivers, lakes, and cities need to be labeled. Over centuries cartographers have developed the art of placing names on even the densest of maps. Text placement or name placement can get mathematically very complex as the number of labels and map density increases. Therefore, text placement is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so cartographers and GIS users have developed automatic label placement to ease this process

Answer 2

A plan is just a draft or something that you intend to do while a map consists of diagrams and locations. Get it??? :)

Although:

In architecture a plan is a orthogonal drawing (a plan of a building) it is a representation of an imagined horizontal slice of a building. (not necessarily a proposed building, but possible one existing, or imagined ... also not necessarily a building but any spatial configuration : object, room ,space, site, town, product ...

whereas a map is a drawing used to understand relationships, relative locations, identities etc. in a system (possibly a landscape)

Answer 3

plan: set of ideas that are strung together in order to achieve something

map: shows locations of things places, ideas in relation to each other. no set direction or goal

you can "map out" your ideas (brainstorm)

you use those ideas to achieve an end (plan)

good luck

jd

however, i think:

In architectural terms a 'plan' is an orthogonal drawing of space (a building, land, room). It is what one imagines one would see when one cuts the space at a certain height and projects the view vertically onto paper. It is Cartesian, visual ...

A map represents a system (most commonly a landscape) describing relationships, identities etc. It uses symbols, links etc.

i.e. the tube map is a map but definitely not a plan. (it is geometrically distorted)

hope that helps,

irh

Answer 4

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