The numerical fraction method is also called representative fraction or R.F. In this method, the ratio between the map distance and the ground distance is given as a fraction, whose numerator is always one. The R.F. is given as 1 / 1 , 00 , 000 . In this example, the numerator (1) represents the map distance and the denominator ( 1 , 00 , 000 ) represents the ground distance. Thus, R.F is represented as Map distance/ Ground distance. No particular units of measurement are used with R.F. It has the universal application in map making.

Maps use symbols like lines and different colours to show features such as rivers, roads, cities or mountains. All these symbols help us to visualise what things on the ground actually look like. Maps also help us know distances so that we know how far away one thing is from another. Maps present information about the world in a simple, visual way. They teach about the world by showing the sizes and shapes of countries, locations of features, and distances between places. Maps can show distributions of things over Earth, such as settlement patterns.

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