A planimetric map is best defined as a map
A. showing the relief of an area by hachures or
shading
B. showing public areas and rights-of-way
C.
delineating different soils and geological features
D. that shows
only the relative horizontal positions of the features represented, without
relief
A planimetric map is distinguished from a topographic
map by the absence of any representation of the vertical orientation of the
features shown.
Answer is D.
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