![]() ![]() Google Maps offers users a map view and satellite view, maybe reinforcing thisĭistinction. I'm interested as to whether the general population still draws a distinction between traditional "drawn" maps and theĪerial photos they see online. ![]() A far cry from the work of a Swiss cartographer's Very low-it is a photo of the lunar surface with a flight path marked. The information content is very high, in that the area is described in great detail, but the level of abstraction is So this photo seems to be a real map as it shows scale, a coordinate system and the flight A map would have other properties often scale, location and some sense of abstraction to Literal picture of the terrain, albeit with changes in appearance due to the atmosphere (when present!), the camera, ![]() The issue of the level of abstraction occurred to me when I saw the references to this as a map. ![]() Generated from databases of imagery and vector map data. That were historically hand drawn annotations on top of a printed aerial photo strips. Technique of using aerial photography as the basis for maps is well established. This sort of "aerial photo as a map" is now commonplace with the advent of web-based mapping services, and the ![]()
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