A linear scale, also called a bar scale, scale bar, graphic scale, or graphical scale, is a means of visually showing the scale of a map, nautical chart, engineering drawing, or architectural drawing. ...
Other terms While conterminous US has the precise meaning of contiguous US (both adjectives meaning "sharing a common boundary"), other terms commonly used to describe the 48 contiguous states have a ...
The compass rose is an old design element found on compasses, maps and even monuments (e.g. the Tower of the Winds in Athens, the pavement in Dougga, Tunis, during Roman times) to show cardinal direct ...
The quality of a map's design affects its reader's ability to extract information and to learn from the map. Cartographic symbology has been developed in an effort to portray the world accurately and ...
A cartouche in cartography is a decorative emblem on a globe or map.Map cartouches may contain the title, the printer's address, date of publication, the scale of the map and legends, and sometimes a ...
Semiotics, epistemology, logic, and philosophy of language are concerned about the nature of signs, what they are and how they signify. The nature of signs and symbols and significations, their defini ...
On May 16, 2007, Yahoo! released a new map style designed by the cartography company Cartifact. Data and imagery were also supplied by Cartifact, including shaded relief showing land surface features ...
Every image created from Google Earth using satellite data provided by Google Earth is a copyrighted map. Any derivative from Google Earth is made from copyrighted data which, under United States Copy ...
In December 2006, Google Earth added a new layer called "Geographic Web" that includes integration with Wikipedia and Panoramio. In Wikipedia, entries are scraped for coordinates via the Coord templat ...
In the mid-1980s, Donnelley began generating maps and routes for customers, with cooperation of Barry Glick, a University at Buffalo PhD graduate. Much of that code was adapted for use on the Internet ...
Colour, typography, illustration, and interaction Web pages usually include information as to the colours of text and backgrounds and very often also contain links to images and sometimes other types ...
PDF files may contain interactive elements such as annotations, form fields, video and Flash animation.Rich Media PDF is a term that is used to describe interactive content that can be embedded or lin ...
PDF was developed in the early 1990s as a way to share documents, including text formatting and inline images, among computer users of disparate platforms who may not have access to mutually-compatibl ...
The experimentation of cathode rays is largely accredited to J. J. Thomson, an English physicist who, in his three famous experiments, was able to deflect cathode rays, a fundamental function of the m ...
Each pixel of an LCD typically consists of a layer of molecules aligned between two transparent electrodes, and two polarizing filters (parallel and perpendicular), the axes of transmission of which a ...
