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  2. Geography - Wikipedia

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    Cartography is the art, science, and technology of making maps. [73] Cartographers study the Earth's surface representation with abstract symbols (map making). Although other subdisciplines of geography rely on maps for presenting their analyses, the actual making of maps is abstract enough to be regarded separately. [74]

  3. Geographic information science - Wikipedia

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    Geographic information science (GIScience, GISc) or geoinformation science is a scientific discipline at the crossroads of computational science, social science, and natural science that studies geographic information, including how it represents phenomena in the real world, how it represents the way humans understand the world, and how it can be captured, organized, and analyzed.

  4. World map - Wikipedia

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    All world maps are based on one of several map projections, or methods of representing a globe on a plane. All projections distort geographic features, distances, and directions in some way. The various map projections that have been developed provide different ways of balancing accuracy and the unavoidable distortion inherent in making world maps.

  5. Geographic data and information - Wikipedia

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    Geographic data and information are the subject of a number of overlapping fields of study, mainly: Geocomputation; Geographic information science. Geographic information science and technology; Geoinformatics; Geomatics; Geovisualization "Geospatial technology" may refer to any of "geomatics", "geomatics", or "geographic information technology."

  6. Geographical feature - Wikipedia

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    In geography and particularly in geographic information science, a geographic feature or simply feature (also called an object or entity) is a representation of phenomenon that exists at a location in the space and scale of relevance to geography; that is, at or near the surface of Earth.

  7. Map - Wikipedia

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    Maps of the world or large areas are often either 'political' or 'physical'. The most important purpose of the political map is to show territorial borders; the purpose of the physical map is to show features of geography such as mountains, soil type, or land use including infrastructures such as roads, railroads, and buildings.

  8. Technical geography - Wikipedia

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    In the same 1749 publication in which Cave discussed technical geography (Geography reformed: a new system of general geography, according to an accurate analysis of the science in four parts. The whole illustrated with notes) critical geography was considered an important part of the process within geography to correct errors on maps and other ...

  9. Portal:Geography - Wikipedia

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    This work created the so-called "Ptolemaic tradition" of geography, which included "Ptolemaic cartographic theory." However, the concepts of geography (such as cartography) date back to the earliest attempts to understand the world spatially, with the earliest example of an attempted world map dating to the 9th century BCE in ancient Babylon.