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    A graticule (from Latin crāticula 'grill/grating'), on a map, is a graphical depiction of a coordinate system as a grid of lines, each line representing...
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  • Graticule (cartography), a grid of lines on a map Grid (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Graticule....
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    Cartography (/kɑːrˈtɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek: χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice...
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    In cartography, a map projection is any of a broad set of transformations employed to represent the curved two-dimensional surface of a globe on a plane...
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    government administrative boundaries, roads, cities, a latitude/longitude graticule, or even terrain. These layers play a secondary role in the use of the...
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    Typography, as an aspect of cartographic design, is the craft of designing and placing text on a map in support of the map symbols, together representing...
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    Projected coordinate system (category Cartography)
    (DGG) East north up Geocodes Geodetic datum Geographical distance Graticule (cartography) Horizontal plane Lattice graph (grid as mathematical abstraction)...
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    emerged with a six-and-a-half square foot, hand-drawn, featureless graticule". A graticule is a network of lines or a grid (latitudes and longitudes) on which...
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    rotated graticule in the same way that (φ,λ) are related to the standard graticule). The Cartesian (x′,y′) axes are related to the rotated graticule in the...
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    sections. Lines of constant latitude and longitude together constitute a graticule on the reference surface. The latitude of a point on the actual surface...
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    Geographic coordinate system (category Cartography)
    grid on a map formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule. The origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea...
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    early Islam." This map is the earliest known map with a scale bar, or graticule, prior to the European Renaissance and suggests that the author's framework...
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    the origin. Stereographic projection of the world north of 30°S. 15° graticule. The stereographic projection with Tissot's indicatrix of deformation...
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    constructing the graticule divides each half-octant into twelve zones, each of which has different formulae for coordinate calculations. Cartography World map...
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    contributions to computer cartography and was one of the first geographers to explore using computers in geography. In cartography, he contributed to the...
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    projection for the world map?" (PDF). Proceedings of the 20th International Cartographic Conference. 5. Beijing, China: 3084–93. Retrieved 2018-11-15. "NG Maps...
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    non-equatorial regions. The decision generated controversy in the world of cartography due to this projection’s extreme distortion in the polar regions. At...
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    than was possible using the trigonometric formulas required under the graticule-based system of latitude and longitude. In the post-war years, these concepts...
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    ed., p. 139). Gray, Robert W. (1994-01-01). "Fuller's Dymaxion Map". Cartography and Geographic Information Systems. 21 (4): 243–246. doi:10.1559/152304094782540628...
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    a stereographic projection of the Earth's surface. Its popularity in cartography increased after Rumold Mercator used its equatorial aspect for his 1595...
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    OCLC 26764604. Monmonier, Mark S. (2015). Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences. University of Chicago Press....
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    These two inventions would revolutionise observational astronomy and cartography. On land, the period from the development of telescopes and pendulum...
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    Central cylindrical projection (category Cartography stubs)
    The central cylindrical projection with a 15° graticule, approximately to latitude ±72°. Distortion is noticeably worse than that of the Mercator projection...
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    Mercator projection (category Early modern Netherlandish cartography)
    latitude values on the right. More often than not the maps show only a graticule of selected meridians and parallels. λ = λ 0 + x R , φ = 2 tan − 1 ⁡ [...
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  • prevent confusion, and may include their own set of cartographic elements such as a scale, graticule, and legend. inshore (relative to a position on a body...
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    In cartography, the quartic authalic projection is an equal-area projection developed by Karl Siemon in 1937 and independently by O.S. Adams in 1944....
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    In cartography, the loximuthal projection is a map projection introduced by Karl Siemon in 1935, and independently in 1966 by Waldo R. Tobler, who named...
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    possible to identify locations on the map by several methods, including the graticule measurements of longitude and latitude, the township and section method...
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    Geodesy (category Cartography)
    Jarosław (2019). "Global Geodetic Observing System 2015–2018". Geodesy and Cartography. doi:10.24425/gac.2019.126090. Pearlman, M.; Arnold, D.; Davis, M.; Barlier...
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    projection at a joint meeting of the Canadian Cartographic Association and the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) in August 1994. Its...
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