Geographia Technica, No. 2/2007, pp. 56 - 61

A FEW CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE ROMANIAN CARTOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT AT THE BEGINING OF THE 20^TH CENTURY

I. Rus, Z. Bartos-Elekes, St. Constantinescu , V. Crăciunescu, G. Timár, I. Ovejanu

ABSTRACT - Before the World War I the territory of Romania was represented on more types of topographic maps. In 1916 the projection was unified: it was used the Lambert–Cholesky Conformal Conic Grid on the datum Clarke 1880. The scale of the base-maps was 1: 20 000. The maps were used until the publication of the Gauss–Krüger maps in 1959. The maps are digitized and georeferred by the authors – so these maps can be used as a basic material for historical and geographical researches.

Keywords: cartographic, projection, Gauss-Krüge, historical map, Romania

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