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Some of the free software mentioned here does not have detailed maps (or maps at all) or the ability to follow streets or type in street names (no geocoding). However, in many cases, it is also that which makes the program free (and sometimes open source [ 1 ] ), avoid the need of an Internet connection, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and make it very ...
Online collection of all digital USGS 1:24K scale topographic maps (as well as various other GIS data) covering the United States, available as a free download. NPScape United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NPScape is a landscape dynamics monitoring project that provides landscape-level data, tools, and evaluations for ...
Maps are useful in presenting key facts within a geographical context and enabling a descriptive overview of a complex concept to be accessed easily and quickly. WikiProject Maps encourages the creation of free maps and their upload on Wikimedia Commons. On the project's pages can be found advice, tools, links to resources, and map conventions.
The full screen option, which can be clicked through from the framed map, provides an entirely different mapping approach, although also using Kartographer to access the OSM base-map data. This uses <maplink> to provide a fullscreen interactive map that can be panned and zoomed.
feature: which geographic objects should be displayed (corresponds in the map data to the name of the field under the objects field). The default is value countries. ids of geographic entities: The actual parameter names depend on the base map and the selected feature. For example, for the above mentioned world map the ids are ISO country codes.
Controlled image base or CIB is unclassified digital imagery, produced to support mission planning and command, control, communications, and intelligence systems. CIB is sometimes used as a map substitute during emergencies or crises in the event that maps do not exist or are outdated.
According to Arthur Robinson, thematic maps were largely an Industrial Age innovation, with some Enlightenment-era roots; almost all of the modern graphical techniques were invented between 1700 and 1850. [6]: 26 Prior to this, the most important cartographic development was the production of accurate general base maps. Their accuracy improved ...
A high-definition map (HD map) is a highly accurate map used primarily in the field of autonomous driving, [1] [2] containing details not normally present on traditional maps. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] HD maps are often captured using an array of sensors, such as LiDARs , radars , digital cameras , and GPS , [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and they can also be constructed ...