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[Famous5]

Anyone know the word which describes an outline drawing of buildings, hills & mountains etc which can be seen from a viewpoint, and labels the sights (sites?!) for the benefit of the viewer

[Ewood27]

Key?

[BenDToy]

I don't believe there is one specific term, but the same technique is used for group photographs. Some derivative of silhouette perhaps?

[Sylday]

I'm not sure that there's any one specific word of phrase, but the word orientation usually comes into it - eg orientation map or orientation diagram. Where the diagram is set out on a freestanding, round table, this is usually referred to as an "orientation table".

[WaldoMcFroog]

"schematatic"?

[funk]

It sounds like a "skyline" to me.

[dave520]

Famous, I think the term you are looking for in architecture is "elevation" which I have always taken it to mean a drawing of a proposed building in relation to its surroundings. In the elevations that were presented to me, the surroundings were sometimes labeled and sometimes not.

[verbiphobe]

vista silhouette