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Hydrographic offices evolved from naval heritage and are usually found within national naval structures, for example Spain's Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina. [1] Coordination of those organizations and product standardization is voluntarily joined with the goal of improving hydrography and safe navigation is conducted by the International ...
Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada (Chile) Sjöfartsverket (Sweden) Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (France) Canadian Hydrographic Service; Primar ENC Service s; Hydrography division of Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen (Denmark) Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service
In the development of hydrographic services, shipping organizations played a part, but the major players were the naval powers. Recognizing hydrographic information was a military advantage these naval organizations, usually under the direction of a "Hydrographer," utilized the expertise of naval officers in collecting hydrographic data that was incorporated into the navy's collection.
The Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina (IHM; literally "Hydrographic Institute of the Navy") is a Spanish institution with responsibilities in the fields of hydrography, geodesy and photogrammetry, cartography, navigation and oceanography.
Physical map of Earth Political map of Earth. A map is a symbolic depiction of interrelationships, commonly spatial, between things within a space. A map may be annotated with text and graphics. Like any graphic, a map may be fixed to paper or other durable media, or may be displayed on a transitory medium such as a computer screen.
1838 map of pre-railroad cargo traffic in Ireland, one of the first thematic maps to use proportional symbols. The earliest known map to visually represent the volume of flow were two maps by engineer Henry Drury Harness, published in 1838 as part of a report on the potential for railroad construction in Ireland, showing the quantity of cargo traffic by road and canal.
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is the UK's agency for providing hydrographic and marine geospatial data to mariners and maritime organisations across the world.
The Sinqa Wayq'u (Quechua sinqa nose, wayq'u brook or valley, [1] "nose brook (or valley)", Hispanicized spelling Senjahuayjo) which upstream successively is named Urqulla Wayq'u (Orjollahuayjo), Ancha Pallqa (Anchapallja), Wankarama (Huancarama) and Waraqu (Huarajo) is a river in the Cusco Region of Peru.