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  2. Military Grid Reference System - Wikipedia

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    UTM zones on an equirectangular world map with irregular zones in red and New York City's zone highlighted. The first part of an MGRS coordinate is the grid-zone designation. The 6° wide UTM zones, numbered 1–60, are intersected by latitude bands that are normally 8° high, lettered C–X (omitting I and O).

  3. Global Area Reference System - Wikipedia

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    Under the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction CJCSI 3900.01C dated 30 June 2007, GARS was adopted for use by the US DoD as "the “area-centric” counterpart to the “point-centric” MGRS". It uses the WGS 1984 Datum and is based on lines of longitude (LONG) and latitude (LAT). It is intended to provide an integrated common ...

  4. Wikipedia : WikiProject Military history/Academy/Creating maps

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    Alternatively, a copyright map can be used as a base to allow one to trace the necessary map features in creating a new, "own work" map. The major steps are normally: Create a base layer using an existing map; Create the next layer to fill in terrain features; The next layer should provide the infrastructure data;

  5. Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps - Wikipedia

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    The aim of WikiProject Maps is to improve the quality of maps across the Wikimedia Foundation. The Maps for Wikipedia page is an overview of different formats and tools for maps available on Wikipedia. The Map conventions page provides advice for creating and improving maps. The Map workshop page can be used to add your map requests and your ...

  6. Projected coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    1954 AMS map of a portion of the disputed Aksai Chin region, showing the MGRS grid in blue. The map projection and the geographic coordinate system (GCS, latitude and longitude) date to the Hellenistic period, proliferating during the Enlightenment Era of the 18th century. However, their use as the basis for specifying precise locations, rather ...

  7. List of cartographers - Wikipedia

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    Abraham Bradley's U.S. postal route map of 1804 Moule's map of the hundreds of Monmouthshire, c. 1831 A 1912 map of the Russian Empire by Yuly Shokalsky. Robert Aitken of Beith. born c. 1786; Carlo de Candia (1803–1862), Italian cartographer, created the large maritime map of Sardinia in 1: 250,000 scale, travel version.

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