Texas example . Military grid reference system similar. Zone Locational systems Often used in atlases as locators, e.g., A-2. Gives a general location for a place. Accuracy dependent on size of zone.
Campus maps use a zone locational system.
In US, various systems by English, French, and Spanish led to various settlement patterns and landscape patterns. For example, the French system of long lots bordering rivers and streams. A review of survey systems fro EcoAtlas. US Public Land Survey System. Tremendous effect on the US landscape.