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For example, an experienced cartographer repeats road names several times for long roads, instead of placing them once, or in the case of Ocean City depicted by a point very close to the shore, the cartographer would place the label "Ocean City" over the land to emphasize that it is a coastal town.
Module:Location map/data/Australia Victoria is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Victoria in Australia. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Before the division of the Port Phillip District into counties, the colony was divided into land districts, as shown on an 1864 map. [8] The land districts were used as the names for parts of the state where counties had yet to be proclaimed. The land districts included: Bourke Land District (Melbourne area, including the County of Bourke)
Geopositioning can be referred to both global positioning and outdoor positioning, using for example GPS, and to indoor positioning, for all the situations where satellite GPS is not a viable option and the localization process has to happen indoors. For indoor positioning, tracking and localization there are many technologies that can be used ...
Some online applications that allow the user to zoom into an area often include locator maps to assist in navigating the main map or image. For example, Google Maps uses a locator map to orient visitors to its site, included as a toggle button. These locators often feature a movable box that assists the user with navigating the main map.
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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.