City plan

Oxford, city plan, 1605 Warsaw, city plan, 1831 OpenStreetMap, a city plan in a palmtop

City Plan - A specific variation of a thematic large-scale map covering the area of ​​a single city. The scale of a traditional (paper) plan is a compromise between its accuracy and the size of the sheet of paper on which the plan is printed and depends on the extent of the city; generally ranging from 1: 20,000 to 1: 30,000. Often, the historical center of the city is additionally shown on the excerpt of the spreadsheet in the increased scale (eg 1: 10.000).

City plans usually depict - apart from the grid of streets along with their names - the location of important objects in the city: monuments, churches, museums, hospitals, pharmacies, police stations, parks, petrol stations, as well as bus, trolleybus, metro and rail, and their stops and stations. The plan usually includes a list of streets and major objects (most often printed on the back of the plan, sometimes included as a separate booklet), and the plan sheet is divided into vertical and horizontal lines on numbered squares, making the location of individual streets and objects easier.

City plans are also complementary to car atlases and road maps, which are usually very schematic, with a relatively large scale of the order of 1: 100,000, which allows only an overview of the main transit streets. Large cities are also presented on plans in the form of booklets or books, such as atlas.

The widespread use of satellite technology (including GPS) and online maps (including Google Maps) has made publicly available interactive cities around the world, updated on a regular basis, sometimes with the participation of local communities, including municipalities.

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