What do you call this kind of map, and where do you find them? – February 18, 2023 at 07:00PM

Hand drawn (usually) map that shows coastlines, rivers, forests, mountains, roads, and other important features to a person traveling on the ground. Not quite a contour or relief map, nor a terrain map, since it is oriented toward a person on the ground. There might be some hills in an area, but they’re too low to be noticed in a more formal map, but one of these maps would note the hills because to a traveler on ground, the hills would be an important terrain feature.

I’m trying to think of examples, but the best I can come up with is fantasy type maps you’ll find in works of fiction, or the terrain in computer games, where there are only, like, 5 types of terrain (open, forest, mountains, swamp, and water, for instance), and I’m really looking for these types of maps for real places (specifically, medieval Europe). I’m curious what travelers back then would have encountered on certain journeys, roads, and rivers.