Cartographic Dictionary
- overedge
- Portion(s) of the map outside the bleed area of the image
- overlay
- Printing or drawing on a transparent or translucent medium intended to be placed in register on a map or other graphic and which shows details not appearing or requiring special emphasis on the base material.
- overprint
- New material printed on a map or chart to show data of importance or special use, in addition to those data originally printed
- parallel of latitude
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A circle, or approximation of a circle, on the surface of the Earth, parallel tot he Equator, and connecting points of equal latitude; a circle of the celestial sphere parallel to the ecliptic, and connecting points of equal celestial latitude.
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photogrammetry
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Science or art of obtaining reliable measurements or information from photographs or other sensing systems.
- longitude
- Angular distance, in degrees, minutes, and seconds, of a point east or west of the Greenwich meridian.
- low water:
- Low height reached by a falling tide.
- low water line
- Intersection of the land with the water surface at an elevation of low water.
- magnetic declination
- map
- Graphical portrayrl of the physical features of a part or the whole of the planet's surface, through signs and symbols or photographic imagery, @ a specific scale, size & projection orientation indicated.
- map, base
- Map on which information may be placed for purposes of comparison or geographical correlation.
- Map Correlation Base: GIS Stratum Axis Interction
- Map GIS Degree: 360-45 degress from median
- Map Variance
- Map Geostratum - layer on GIS map with 45 degree angle