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National mapping agency, the Glossary

A national mapping agency (NMA) is an organisation, usually publicly owned, that produces topographic maps and geographic information of a country.^[1]

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National mapping agencies

Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Algete

Algete is a town and municipality in central Spain.

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Board of Ordnance

The Board of Ordnance was a British government body.

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Cadastre

A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Cartography

Cartography (from χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps.

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Cheka

The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (p), abbreviated as VChK (p), and commonly known as the Cheka (p), was the first Soviet secret police organization.

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Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information

The Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information or CD:NGI (formerly the Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping or CD:SM), is the national mapping agency of South Africa. National mapping agency and Chief Directorate: National Geo-spatial Information are national mapping agencies.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Congress of the Republic of Peru

The Congress of the Republic of Peru (Congreso de la República) is the unicameral body that assumes legislative power in Peru.

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Creative Commons license

A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work".

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Danish Geodata Agency

The Danish Geodata Agency (GST) (Geodatastyrelsen), (previously National Survey and Cadastre of Denmark (Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen, KMS)), is the Danish state owned central agency responsible for surveying, mapping and land registering of all of Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and all waters associated with these. National mapping agency and Danish Geodata Agency are national mapping agencies.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Department of Defence (Australia)

Defence Australia is a department of the Government of Australia charged with the responsibility to defend Australia and its national interests.

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Directive (European Union)

A directive is a legal act of the European Union that requires member states to achieve particular goals without dictating how the member states achieve those goals.

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Eastern Front (World War II)

The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.

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Economy of the Soviet Union

The economy of the Soviet Union was based on state ownership of the means of production, collective farming, and industrial manufacturing.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Faroe Islands

The Faroe or Faeroe Islands, or simply the Faroes (Føroyar,; Færøerne), are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main ("Frank ford on the Main") is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse.

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Free license

A free license or open license is a license that allows copyrighted work to be reused, modified, and redistributed.

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Géoportail

Géoportail is a comprehensive web mapping service of the French government that publishes maps and geophysical aerial photographs from more than 90 sources for France and its territories.

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Geographic data and information

Geographic data and information is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as data and information having an implicit or explicit association with a location relative to Earth (a geographic location or geographic position).

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Geographic Institute Agustín Codazzi

The Geographic Institute Agustín Codazzi (Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi, IGAC), is the entity of the Government of Colombia responsible for producing the official maps and basic cartography of Colombia, and managing the national cadastral infrastructure and the national soil survey. National mapping agency and Geographic Institute Agustín Codazzi are national mapping agencies.

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Geography of Nepal

Nepal measures about along its Himalayan axis by across.

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Geoscience Australia

Geoscience Australia is an agency of the Australian Government. National mapping agency and Geoscience Australia are national mapping agencies.

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The, or GSI, is the national institution responsible for surveying and mapping the national land of Japan. National mapping agency and Geospatial Information Authority of Japan are national mapping agencies.

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Government of Nepal

The Government of Nepal (नेपाल सरकार) is the authority of Nepal.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.

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Hellenic Military Geographical Service

The Hellenic Military Geographical Service or HMGS (Γεωγραφική Υπηρεσία Στρατού or Γ.Υ.Σ.), is the Hellenic Military's mapping agency. National mapping agency and Hellenic Military Geographical Service are national mapping agencies.

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Inch

The inch (symbol: in or pprime) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière

The (National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information), previously (National Geographic Institute) or IGN, is a French public state administrative establishment founded in 1940 to produce and maintain geographical information for France and its overseas departments and territories. National mapping agency and Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière are national mapping agencies.

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Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain)

The Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), or National Geographic Institute is a Spanish government agency, dependent on the Spanish Ministry of Public Works. National mapping agency and Instituto Geográfico Nacional (Spain) are national mapping agencies.

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International Map of the World

The International Map of the World (IMW; also the Millionth Map of the World, after its scale of 1:1000000) was a project to create a complete map of the world according to internationally agreed standards.

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Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym, is the national military of the State of Israel.

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Jacobite rising of 1745

The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart. It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Army was fighting in mainland Europe, and proved to be the last in a series of revolts that began in March 1689, with major outbreaks in 1715 and 1719.

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Kadaster

Kadaster is the name designation of the Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and national mapping agency in the Netherlands. National mapping agency and Kadaster are national mapping agencies.

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List of national mapping agencies

This is a list of national mapping agencies (NMA) in the world.

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Lumbini Zone

Lumbini (लुम्बिनी अञ्चल) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructure of zones to provinces.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.

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Meridian (geography)

In geography and geodesy, a meridian is the locus connecting points of equal longitude, which is the angle (in degrees or other units) east or west of a given prime meridian (currently, the IERS Reference Meridian).

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Mile

The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards.

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Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel)

The Israeli Military Intelligence (lit), often abbreviated to Aman (אמ״ן), is the central, overarching military intelligence body of the Israel Defense Forces.

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Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Finland)

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) is a ministry in the Finnish Government and is responsible for preparing and implementing the government's foreign policy.

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Ministry of Education (Peru)

The Ministry of Education (Ministerio de Educación) is the government ministry responsible for education in Peru.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Mount Marcy

Mount Marcy (Mohawk: Tewawe’éstha) is the highest point in the U.S. state of New York, with an elevation of.

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National Geographic Institute (Peru)

The National Geographic Institute is the national mapping agency of Peru.

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National Topographic System

The National Topographic System or NTS is the system used by Natural Resources Canada for providing general purpose topographic maps of the country.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. National mapping agency and Ordnance Survey are national mapping agencies.

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Ordnance Survey National Grid

The Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system (OSGB), also known as British National Grid (BNG), is a system of geographic grid references, distinct from latitude and longitude, whereby any location in Great Britain can be described in terms of its distance from the origin (0, 0), which lies to the west of the Isles of Scilly.

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OS MasterMap

The OS MasterMap is the premier digital product of the Ordnance Survey.

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Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

The Principal Triangulation of Britain was the first high-precision triangulation survey of the whole of Great Britain and Ireland, carried out between 1791 and 1853 under the auspices of the Board of Ordnance.

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Quadrangle (geography)

A "quadrangle" is a topographic map produced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) covering the United States.

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Romer

A reference card or Romer is a device for increasing the accuracy when reading a grid reference from a map.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Scottish Highlands

The Highlands (the Hielands; a' Ghàidhealtachd) is a historical region of Scotland.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spatial data infrastructure

A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), also called geospatial data infrastructure, is a data infrastructure implementing a framework of geographic data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way.

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Survey of India

The Survey of India is India's central engineering agency in charge of mapping and surveying. National mapping agency and survey of India are national mapping agencies.

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Survey of Israel

Survey of Israel - SOI (מפ"י - המרכז למיפוי ישראל, MAPI – HaMerkaz LeMipui Yisra'el) is the survey and mapping department of the Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction. National mapping agency and survey of Israel are national mapping agencies.

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Surveying

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.

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Swisstopo

Swisstopo is the official name for the Swiss Federal Office of Topography (in German: Bundesamt für Landestopografie; French: Office fédéral de topographie; Italian: Ufficio federale di topografia; Romansh: Uffizi federal da topografia), Switzerland's national mapping agency. National mapping agency and Swisstopo are national mapping agencies.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Terai

The Terai or Tarai is to a lowland region in parts of northern India and southern Nepal that lies to the south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, the Sivalik Hills and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The National Map

The National Map is a collaborative effort of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and other federal, state, and local agencies to improve and deliver topographic information for the United States.

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Topographic map

In modern mapping, a topographic map or topographic sheet is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief features, usually using contour lines (connecting points of equal elevation), but historically using a variety of methods.

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Transverse Mercator projection

The transverse Mercator map projection (TM, TMP) is an adaptation of the standard Mercator projection.

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United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management

The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) is one of the nine expert groups of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to foster the global development geospatial information.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. National mapping agency and United States Geological Survey are national mapping agencies.

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Volga

The Volga (p) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of, and a catchment area of., Russian State Water Registry It is also Europe's largest river in terms of average discharge at delta – between and – and of drainage basin.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_mapping_agency

Also known as Mapping agency, National cartographic agency, National mapping agencies, National survey.

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