I know lol that's why I'm not sure how it is difficult or something to learn really.
I guess your mention of representation of elevation made me realize that you at least need to learn the conventions and the key to a map.
>I know lol that's why I'm not sure how it is difficult or something to learn really.
Imagine how easy recursion is to grok for most of us and absurdly painful for most people trying to learn programming.
Well, you have provided a neat definition of map reading. :)