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DGQ Vocabulary. Cartographer is a person whose profession is drawing maps.
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Transcript of DGQ Vocabulary. Cartographer is a person whose profession is drawing maps.
Political Map are designed to show
governmental boundaries of countries, states, and counties, the location of major cities, and bodies of water.
Mercator Projection The Mercator projection is a cylindrical
map projection. It became the standard map projection
for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant true bearing or true course
It has the correct shape of the continents.
Azimuthal or Polar Projection An Azimuthal projection shows the earth
centered in such a way that a straight line coming from the center to any other point represents the shortest distance.
Used most with air navigation
Great Circle Route Great circle is the shortest possible
distance between any two places on the earth’s surface.
Ships and planes usually follow the curve of the great circle.
Robinson Projection Mostly Used Less distortion than the Mercator
Projection. The Robinson projection is a map
projection popularly used since the 1960s to show the entire world at once. It was specifically created in an attempt to find the good compromise to the problem of readily showing the whole globe as a flat image.
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