Map scale
One inch equals 100 miles.
What is a verbal map scale?
The study of the how maps create a sense of meaning, help shape people's attitudes and the powerful political and society implications of maps.
What is critical cartography?
Common point locations on both an unreferenced image and the source, that are identifiable on both. A minimum of three are necessary and the large the spread between them, the better.
What are control points?
This term refers to the inequities at every scale (from neighborhood to global) between those who have access to the internet, hardware and software and those who do not.
What is the digital divide?
The study of the relations among geography, states, and world power.
What is geopolitics?
1:36,000,000 OR 1/36,000,000
What is a ratio or fractional map scale?
Computer code that users can access to customize larger programs or websites that is supported by XML, APIs and other programming languages and tools that do not limit access to the code.
What is open-source?
This term describes one of the ways that unreferenced data can be warped to align with a georeferenced source by turning the orientation of the map.
What is rotation?
The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 attended by European countries of France, Britain, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany) set the present day boundaries for this location.
What is the continent of Africa?
In cartography and mapmaking, this term refers to the use of right triangle geometry to determine distance.
What is triangulation?
XML - Sometimes called the programming language of the internet
What is extensible markup language?
This type of political boundary relies on natural features such a mountain ranges and rivers.
What are physiographic boundaries?
This term describes one of the ways that unreferenced data can be warped to align with a georeferenced source by altering the location and placement of the map.
What is translated?
This term describes one of the ways that unreferenced data can be warped to align with a georeferenced source by altering the extent of the entire map to match the image.
What is scaled?
based on religion, language or ethnicity this type of boundary such as the one between India and Pakistan that was constructed as separating Hindus from Muslims.
What are ethnographic boundaries?