Egypt 1:500,000

Description:

Complete in 11 sheets? Set includes various issues of some sheets; some issued also by British Middle East Forces (M.D.R. 575); some reprinted by U.S. Army Map Service. Relief shown by gradient tints, hachures and spot heights. Military grid on some sheets. Shows standard and narrow gauge railroads, and three classes of roads or tracks. Some sheets have notes regarding trafficability of terrain off the mapped routes. Some sheets, based on maps by Survey of Egypt, are in English and Arabic. "List of permanent water supplies" on most sheets. Marginal diagrams: Index to adjoining sheets. Sheet 1. Matrûh -- Sheet 2. Cairo -- Sheet 3. North Sinai -- [Sheet 4. Bahariya?] -- Sheet 5. Asyût -- Sheet 6. South Sinai -- Sheet 7. Dakhla -- Sheet 8. Qena -- Sheet 9. Quṣeir -- Sheet 10. 'Uweinât -- Sheet 11. Aswân -- Sheet 12. 'Elba.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/fs789th9218

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/fs789th9218 and map46000149

Language:

eng and ara

Creator:

Great Britain, War Office, General Staff, Geographical Section and Egypt, Maṣlaḥat al-Misāḥah

Publisher:

War Office

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

Transportation

Theme:

Transportation

Date Issued:

1938-

Spatial Coverage:

Egypt

Rights:

Image from the Map Collections courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections at brannerlibrary@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

false