Mapping science

Mapping science

The systemic study of the processes and designs involved with map making.

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Abutter

Earth science; Mapping science

An owner or occupant whose property adjoins or touches the land under consideration.

Adams' rhombic conformal map projection

Earth science; Mapping science

A conformal map projection mapping a sphere or hemisphere into a rhombus having one opposite pair of angles equal to 60° and the other pair equal to 120°. The complex function z(x + iy) is related ...

Ambient

Earth science; Mapping science

Referring to a characteristic of a surrounding medium e.g., ambient pressure, ambient temperature.

Bar cheque apparatus

Earth science; Mapping science

An apparatus consisting of a bar or disk, with associated machinery for lowering and hoisting, which is lowered from the side of a ship to an accurately known depth. The depth is then measured ...

Polyhedral angle

Earth science; Mapping science

The solid angle bounded by a set of planes that intersect at a common point in such a way that each plane is bounded by the lines of intersection and intersects exactly to other planes. The solid ...

Bandwidth

Earth science; Mapping science

The range of frequencies required to transmit information at a specified rate.

Base map

Earth science; Mapping science

(1) A map on which information can be placed for comparison or for geographical correlation. The term base map was at one time applied to a class of maps now known as outline maps. It may be ...