Questions tagged [cartography]
Using artistic and scientific principles for creating maps and graphically representing geographic areas
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What GIS program should I use to create this map? [closed]
I want to create a map like this
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It is a raster image. What program should I use to create it? Right now on my PC, I have QGIS. Could it be able to create such map? If it can, what functionality I ...
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Thematic map made in QGIS [closed]
I made a thematic map of carbon stock in Russian Federation in 2017 year.
I am not a cartographer and geographer at all.
What should I do with this map to make it more professional?
Could you send ...
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Making Map Matching Points to Roads [duplicate]
I'm having some trouble while map matching these points for some streets. Could you lend me a hand?
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Steps to integrate Cesium.js with Mapguide Opensource [closed]
I render map in php mapviewer with mapguide opensource and postgresql/postgis and edit with mapguide maestro.
What would be steps to integrate cesium.js?
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Is there a way to make land classifications with simple RGB satellite images?
The area of interest I am working on mapping is quite small, just under 10 acres. I need to create simple landcover vectors (trees, low vegetation/grass, water). I don't have access to high enough ...
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using qq map tiles with the leaflet.js :Uncaught Error: No value provided for variable {x16}
I tried to use qq map tiles with the leaflet.js but it has an error "Uncaught Error: No value provided for variable {x16}" and cannot show map.
My code
var map = L.map('map');
map.setView([39....
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Latitudes and Longitudes in Atlas
I have seen some Atlases and Maps where North or South or plus(+) for North or minus(-) for south is not mentioned/suffixed with the degrees of Latitudes in the graticules. Is it correct? How will a ...
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How many 0.025°x0.025° (lat/lon) squares are there on the globe? [closed]
Pretty straightforward maths question that I can't wrap my head around. If you were to fill the globe with 0.025°x0.025° squares, how many would it take?
Poles don't matter too much - I know they'd ...
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What softwares to make maps of linguistic,ethnic distribution, and also territorial division [closed]
What softwares can I use to make maps of:
ethnic distribution, very detailed map like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Austria_Hungary_ethnic.svg
Linguistic distribution (I cannot paste ...
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Buffer is giving me a different distance [closed]
I'm using ArcGIS 10.1. When I Buffered I changed the environments to compare the two different projections. WyLAM is a statewide Lambert Conformal Conic projection used for Wyoming. State plane in ...
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Where's the mean center of the contiguous US population? [closed]
I can find 1790 to 2010 and an estimate for 2014 but Alaska and Hawaii are included after they became states and I wonder what it is without those states' extreme distances skewing the average. I don'...
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Why don't shapefiles online contain the coastline (country borders)?
I have searched everywhere and Geofabric has the best packages of shps yet doesn't have the coastline of countries.
I'm talking about the line that demarcates a country i suppose they are called ...
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Help with definition query [closed]
I have a layer of 5ft contour lines, and it includes a field called "Elevation" that has the elevation of that particular line in feet, (ex: 1555, 1560, 1565 etc.). I want to only show lines for every ...
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Creating map legend in ArcMap? [closed]
Finished all my analysis and would like to make a legend to display the data in the map I have.
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