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They settled on five themes: location, place, relationships within places (later changed to human-environment interaction), relationships between places (later shortened to movement), and region. [4] The themes were not a "new geography" but rather a conceptual structure for organizing information about geography. [1]
Ptolemy's map of the Mediterranean superimposed on a modern map, with Greenwich as the reference longitude. Ptolemy, in the 2nd century AD, based his mapping system on estimated distances and directions reported by travellers. Until then, all maps had used a rectangular grid with latitude and longitude as straight lines intersecting at right ...
image. China Hong Kong location map.svg. Module:Location map/data/Hong Kong is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Hong Kong. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" image1 = USA Florida relief location map.jpg An alternative map image, usually a relief map, which can be displayed via the relief or AlternativeMap parameters; top = 31.2 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 24.3 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left ...
Graticule (cartography) A graticule (from Latin crāticula 'grill/grating'), on a map, is a graphical depiction of a coordinate system as a grid of lines, each line representing a constant coordinate value. [ 1 ] It is thus a form of isoline, and is commonly found on maps of many kinds, at scales from local to global.
Location map of Beijing. / 40.2417; 116.4423. Module:Location map/data/China Beijing is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Beijing. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
His most famous work, the Dai Nihon Enkai Yochi Zenzu (大日本沿海輿地全図) consisted of three large map pages at a scale of 1:432,000 and it showed the entire country on eight pages at 1:216,000. Some of his maps are accurate to 1/1000 of a degree, which allowed it to become the definitive maps used in Japan for nearly a century. Maps ...
Module:Location map/data/United States San Diego is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of central San Diego, California. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.