Terrain sketch

The terrain sketch (from Terrain + Ital . : schizzo ) is a sketch of a certain terrain section or section made by hand without any special aids except paper , pencil , triangle and ruler after the view of the terrain using the usual map elements and map symbols, not to scale .

The sketch can be created by viewing and inspecting the site, supplemented by simply pacing , by drawing professionally created material or by reproducing it from memory .

It is related to the orientation sketch and the march sketch .

An aid for creating an orientation sketch on the basis of a map can be a foil copy of the geometric grid of the reporting block , which is placed over the terrain section on a topographic map and enables it to be drawn roughly to scale. The same aid is the map sketch paper printed on milky tracing paper.

See also: inspection card , Krokieren , Kroki , field plan , Geländespiel