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  2. United States Coast and Geodetic Survey - Wikipedia

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    Pacific Marine Center, the USC&GS ship base USC&GS Explorer in the Aleutian Islands in 1944 NOAAS Oceanographer (R 101) off Seattle, Washington, ca. 1974. As USC&GS Oceanographer (OSS 01), she was flagship of the Coast and Geodetic Survey fleet from her commissioning in 1966 until the creation of NOAA in 1970.

  3. List of national mapping agencies - Wikipedia

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    National Land Surveying and Mapping Center (NLSC) nlsc.gov.tw: Thailand: Royal Thai Survey Department: rtsd.mi.th Archived 2001-06-15 at archive.today: WebGIS: Uzbekistan: O’zdavgeodezkadastr (State committee of land resources, geodesy, cartography and cadastre of Uzbekistan) or Yergeodezkadastr or Kadastr: ygk.uz > Vietnam

  4. Center, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    A post office called Bascobel was established in 1826, the name was changed to Center in 1899, and the post office closed in 1958. [3] The present name is after one Mr. Center, a railroad agent. [2] The Georgia General Assembly incorporated the place in 1906 as the "Town of Center". [4] The town's charter was formally dissolved in 1995. [2]

  5. Congress didn’t pass effort to make Ocmulgee Mounds GA’s ...

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    The bill that would make the Ocmulgee Mounds in Macon Georgia’s first national park faced delays at the end of 2024, but initiative leaders remain hopeful.

  6. Orange, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Orange is an unincorporated community located in eastern Cherokee County between the communities of Macedonia and Lathemtown in the U.S. state of Georgia. Orange was the second community in Cherokee County upon the county's inception in 1832. [ 1 ]

  7. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    Costing 350 guilders for a non-coloured and 450 guilders for a coloured version, the atlas was the most precious book of the 17th century. However, the Atlas Maior was also a turning point: after that time the role of Dutch cartography (and Netherlandish cartography in general) was finished. Janssonius died in 1664 while a great fire in 1672 ...

  8. Gall–Peters projection - Wikipedia

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    The increasing publicity of Peters's claims in 1986 motivated the American Cartographic Association (now Cartography and Geographic Information Society) to produce a series of booklets (including Which Map Is Best [2]) designed to educate the public about map projections and distortion in maps.

  9. Venues of the 1996 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    The Georgia World Congress Center, first opened in 1976 and expanded twice before the 1996 Olympics, was expanded again in 2002. [98] As of 2010, the three buildings containing the twelve total exhibit halls had a total of 1,366,000 sq ft (126,900 m 2). [99] The Georgia Tech Aquatic Center opened in 1977 as the Student Athletic Center.