Mapping science

Mapping science

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

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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.

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.

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.

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 ...

negative altitude

Earth science; Mapping science

Angular distance below the horizon.

angle point

Earth science; Mapping science

(1) A monument marking a point, on an irregular boundary line, reservation line, boundary of a private claim, or a re established, non riparian meander line, at which a change in azimuth occurs. ...