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  2. Restrictions on geographic data in China - Wikipedia

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    Foreign individuals or organizations that wish to conduct surveying must form a Chinese-foreign joint venture. [1] Between 2006 and 2011, the authorities pursued around 40 illegal cases of mapping and surveying. [6] The media has reported on other cases of unlawful surveys:

  3. Coverage error - Wikipedia

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    For example, Washington State University students conducted Student Survey Experience Surveys by building a sample frame using both street addresses and email addresses. [ 5 ] In another example of a mixed-mode approach, the 2010 U.S. Census primarily relied on residential mail responses, and then deployed field interviewers to interview non ...

  4. Total survey error - Wikipedia

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  5. Local attraction - Wikipedia

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    The external forces are produced by sources of local attraction which may be current carrying wire (magnetic materials) or metal objects. [2] The term is also used to denote amount of deviation of the needle from its normal position. It mostly causes errors in observations while surveying and thus suitable methods are employed to negate these ...

  6. List of GIS data sources - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of GIS data sources (including some geoportals) that provide information sets that can be used in geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial databases for purposes of geospatial analysis and cartographic mapping. This list categorizes the sources of interest.

  7. Position resection and intersection - Wikipedia

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    Position resection and intersection are methods for determining an unknown geographic position (position finding) by measuring angles with respect to known positions.In resection, the one point with unknown coordinates is occupied and sightings are taken to the known points; in intersection, the two points with known coordinates are occupied and sightings are taken to the unknown point.

  8. Topography - Wikipedia

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    Topographic survey information is historically based upon the notes of surveyors. They may derive naming and cultural information from other local sources (for example, boundary delineation may be derived from local cadastral mapping). While of historical interest, these field notes inherently include errors and contradictions that later stages ...

  9. State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping - Wikipedia

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    A China National Survey marker in Jin Mt, Gaotou Township, Fujian. The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (Chinese: 国家测绘地理信息局; pinyin: Guójiā cèhuì dìlǐ xìnxī jú) was the central agency that was responsible for surveying and mapping in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was established in 1959 and was made ...