Saturday, February 9, 2008

Cartography

The cartography is with of scientific, technical and artistic acquaintances finalized to the symbolic but veritiera rappresentazione of geographic information - or demographic, economic, political, culturalstatistics , however in relation to the geographic place in which they are come true - on supports plans (geographic papers) or spherical (globes).

The geometric or mathematical techniques that transform the expressed points in geographic coordinates in points expressed in cartesian coordinates call cartographic projections.

The cartographic studies and the relative applications in the various fields applied to you have been rivoluzionate from the development and the spread of Sistemi Informed to you Geographic (GIS).

The first one to make a paper of the Mediterranean was Dicearco from Messina, that it devised a system based on two orthogonal main lines on which a reticulum of squares was developed.

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