• Title: Elements Of Map Projection: With Applications To Map And Chart Construction
• Author(s) Charles Henry Deetz, Oscar Sherman Adams, U S Coast and Geodetic Survey
• Publisher: Legare Street Press (October 27, 2022); eBoook (Public Domain Edition)
• License(s): Public Domain
• Paperback: 192 pages
• eBook: PDF
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1016865511
• ISBN-13: 978-1016865517
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The goal is to equip readers with the foundational knowledge of concepts they need to conceive, design, and produce maps in a legible, clear, and coherent manner, drawing from both classical and modern theory in cartography.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

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