Contemporary status of topographic mapping in Ukraine

The fundamentals and contemporary status of topographic mapping of Ukraine’s territory has been studied. Prior to declaration of Ukraine’s independence, its territory was covered with 1:10,000 to 1:1,000,000 scale topographic maps made by sub-divisions of the Chief Department of Geodesy and Cartogra...

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Main Author: Sossa Rostyslav
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2021-01-01
Series:Polish Cartographical Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2021-0001
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description The fundamentals and contemporary status of topographic mapping of Ukraine’s territory has been studied. Prior to declaration of Ukraine’s independence, its territory was covered with 1:10,000 to 1:1,000,000 scale topographic maps made by sub-divisions of the Chief Department of Geodesy and Cartography affiliated with the Council of Ministers of the USSR (GUGK USSR) and sub-divisions of the Military Topographic Service (MTS) of the USSR Armed Forces. Topographic mapping related cooperation between these institutions has been described. Topographic study of Ukraine’s territory as at 1991 has been subject to close analysis, with due consideration of the coordinate systems used for topographic maps.
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spelling doaj.art-9874205e0cd946d48ff20727da6b3df02022-12-22T03:44:28ZengSciendoPolish Cartographical Review0324-83212450-69662021-01-0153111210.2478/pcr-2021-0001Contemporary status of topographic mapping in UkraineSossa Rostyslav0Lviv Polytechnic National University, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of History of Ukraine, Lviv, UkraineThe fundamentals and contemporary status of topographic mapping of Ukraine’s territory has been studied. Prior to declaration of Ukraine’s independence, its territory was covered with 1:10,000 to 1:1,000,000 scale topographic maps made by sub-divisions of the Chief Department of Geodesy and Cartography affiliated with the Council of Ministers of the USSR (GUGK USSR) and sub-divisions of the Military Topographic Service (MTS) of the USSR Armed Forces. Topographic mapping related cooperation between these institutions has been described. Topographic study of Ukraine’s territory as at 1991 has been subject to close analysis, with due consideration of the coordinate systems used for topographic maps.https://doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2021-0001topographic mapstopographic mapping of ukrainenational geospatial data infrastructurecoordinate and heights systems
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Contemporary status of topographic mapping in Ukraine
Polish Cartographical Review
topographic maps
topographic mapping of ukraine
national geospatial data infrastructure
coordinate and heights systems
title Contemporary status of topographic mapping in Ukraine
title_full Contemporary status of topographic mapping in Ukraine
title_fullStr Contemporary status of topographic mapping in Ukraine
title_full_unstemmed Contemporary status of topographic mapping in Ukraine
title_short Contemporary status of topographic mapping in Ukraine
title_sort contemporary status of topographic mapping in ukraine
topic topographic maps
topographic mapping of ukraine
national geospatial data infrastructure
coordinate and heights systems
url https://doi.org/10.2478/pcr-2021-0001
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