Answer» - Maps are very useful to the government for planning and administrative purposes.
- Maps are essential to a geographer, to present spatial information systematically.
- They are useful to locate lakes, rivers, vegetation, coastal features and also to understand the distribution of soils, minerals, crops, population, tourist places.
- They are very much helpful at the time of war and defence.
- Maps are very important for the army. Military maps are very useful for the overall planning of the strategy of war and for coordinating military action during war.
- Maps are very useful tools for a geographer. Geography cannot be understood and made interesting without maps.
- Maps are also immensely useful to other sciences, like physical and social sciences. For example Geology, climatology, Meteorology etc.
- Maps serve as a permanent record to locate features like rivers, lakes vegetation etc.
- Maps enable us to know details of the landforms and other ground features. Mountains, plateaus, plains, coastal plains etc.
- Maps serve as a permanent record to locate features like rivers, lakes, vegetations etc.
- Maps showing the distribution of objects become very useful to understand the location and distribution of different objects such as minerals, soils, vegetation, agricultural crops, industries, population, etc.
- Maps help to mark political boundary, administrative areas to formulate legislation and legal jurisdiction.
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