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Mapping science
The systemic study of the processes and designs involved with map making.
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Depesas
Earth science; Mapping science
In Spanish-American Law, spaces of ground, in towns, reserved for commons or public pasturage.
Degaussing
Earth science; Mapping science
Reducing the magnetization of a body as nearly to zero as possible.
Apparent solar day
Earth science; Mapping science
The interval of time between two successive upper or lower transits of the Sun across a given meridian. Because the revolution of the Earth is not uniform, apparent solar days vary in length ...
Earth-fixed coordinate system
Earth science; Mapping science
A coordinate system the axes of which are fixed with respect to the Earth. Because the Earth not rigid but (a) is imperfectly elastic and (b) moving irregularly in all its parts, the above ...
Isoperimetric curve
Earth science; Mapping science
A line, on a map, along which there is no variation from the exact scale of the map. There are two isoperimetric curves passing through every point on a map drawn using an equal area map ...
Contact base line apparatus
Earth science; Mapping science
A base-line apparatus composed of bars whose lengths were defined by the distances between their end faces or points. In use, the bars were laid end to end. One bar was kept in position while ...
