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Mapping science
The systemic study of the processes and designs involved with map making.
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Alinement correction
Earth science; Mapping science
A correction applied to the measured length of a line to allow for the tape's not being held exactly in a vertical plane containing the line. Although the two vertical planes which contain the ...
Appurtenance
Earth science; Mapping science
That which belongs to another thing as principal and passing as incident to it. As, e.g., a right of way or other easement to land, a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or ...
Asymptotic approximation
Earth science; Mapping science
A method of successive approximation in which successive values converge toward some final value but then, after a certain number of steps, begin to diverge.
Abbe's Criterion
Earth science; Mapping science
A criterion (introduced by Abbe in 1863) for testing the hypothesis that a systematic trend exists in a set of observations. The criterion is seldom used.
Impersonal astrolabe
Earth science; Mapping science
An astrolabe so constructed that the personal error of the observer does not affect the measurements. The Danjon astrolabe is such an instrument.
Base line reduction to the spheroid
Earth science; Mapping science
Base-line reduction to the ellipsoid when the ellipsoid is a spheroid (ellipsoid of rotation).
Standard bar
Earth science; Mapping science
A bar (2) on which representative units of length are marked off and used to calibrate other measures of length or distance.
