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CARTOGRAPHIC DRAWING [2 records]

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Record 1 2024-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Light Precision Instruments
  • Cartography
  • Industrial Techniques and Processes
CONT

In many cartographic establishments the whole of the work of the plotting and drawing stages of constructing a map projection can be done by coordinatograph... This instrument creates the two orthogonal axes of rectangular coordinates by means of one fixed steel beam and a travelling steel gantry which has a moving plotting head attached to it. Linear displacements of the gantry and the plotting head may be transferred to scales by means of lead-screws or a rack-and-pinion movement. With the aid of verniers or micrometers attached to each movement it is possible to read or plot coordinates to a least count of 0. 1 mm [millimeter] on the majority of instruments.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Petite mécanique de précision
  • Cartographie
  • Techniques industrielles
DEF

Ustensile utilisé en cartographie pour le report des coordonnées.

Spanish

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Record 2 2009-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cartography
CONT

A cartographic drawing may contain symbols and text annotation that define the entities in the drawing itself.

CONT

Experience in checking cartographic drawings.

Key term(s)
  • cartographical drawing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cartographie
CONT

Les plus anciennes cartes nautiques conservées, liées à l'usage de la boussole, sont de facture génoise ou vénitienne et datent au plus tôt de la fin du XIIIe siècle. Elles représentent généralement le bassin méditerranéen («Mare nostrum»), avec un dessin cartographique d'une précision étonnante, eu égard aux moyens techniques dont disposaient les cartographes à cette époque.

Spanish

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