map reference

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map reference

- The numbers and letters you use to find a location on a map.
See also related terms for location.
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map reference

A means of identifying a point on the surface of the Earth by relating it to information appearing on a map, generally the graticule or grid.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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Records were filtered so that only accidents taking place near roundabouts were shown - and any records without a map reference were excluded.
The Department for Transport records were filtered so that only accidents taking place near roundabouts were shown - and any records without a map reference were excluded.
The records were filtered so that only accidents taking place near roundabouts were shown and any records without a map reference were excluded.
Arlyn Booth of Marengo has been collecting map-related memorabilia for 40 years -- ever since becoming map reference librarian at the Illinois State Library.
Linking Bass' journal (Organ, 1990) to the map reference reveals the location where locals claimed escaped convicts were living with them, likely the first unofficial Europeans living in the Illawarra and the start of a European-influenced landscape.
The Convalescent Camp was some hours ride by train from Rouen and was known by a map reference. It was miles from anywhere and a very dismal place.
Google map reference: 193 Palmer Road, Brimfield, MA 01010, 42.117419, -72.237382
His book includes a foreword by The Story of Wales presenter and BBC newsreader Huw Edwards and an introduction by Susan Fielding, Historic Buildings Investigator at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, as well as a map and an index of the chapels, including their Ordnance Survey map reference.
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