Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.

Also, colors are used in the map to distinguish different geographical areas.

A geographical map projection of a region of the earth onto a small, plane surface is a model which can be used for many purposes such as planning travel.

Also during the 11th century, an early linguist of the Turkic languages, Mahmud al-Kashgari from the Kara-Khanid Khanate, published the first comprehensive Turkic language dictionary and map of the geographical distribution of Turkic speakers in the Compendium of the Turkic Dialects ( Ottoman Turkish: Divânü Lügati't-Türk ).

The Compendium is the first comprehensive dictionary of the Turkic languages and also includes the first known map of the Turkic speakers ' geographical distribution.

In a further attack on the company, the map of Cuntinental Europe-given away free with Issue 118 and showing a large cartoon of stereotypes of the British and their neighbours over the relevant geographical areas-displayed the McDonald's logo on potentially insensitive locations, such as the Parthenon and the vicinity of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The Kangnido map ( 1402 ) predates Zheng's voyages and suggests that he had quite detailed geographical information on much of the Old World

* Copies are printed of the geographical map of East Asia created by Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit stationed in Ming Dynasty Beijing, China, with Chinese-written labeling and map symbols.

A 1747 map based on Egede's descriptions, including many geographical errors common to the time.

Dorchester County uses the slogan, " The Heart of Chesapeake Country ," due to its geographical location and the heart-like shape of the county on a map.

Surface weather analysis is a special type of weather map that provides a view of weather elements over a geographical area at a specified time based on information from ground-based weather stations.

Weather maps are created by plotting or tracing the values of relevant quantities such as sea level pressure, temperature, and cloud cover onto a geographical map to help find synoptic scale features such as weather fronts.

Ptolemy created a map of Ireland in his Geographia with information dating from 100 AD, it is the oldest written account of the island with geographical features.

However, in the Somerset County Agricultural Society, he found a map showing the types of soils and vegetation around Bath and their geographical extent.

* Detailed geographical map

The expedition can nevertheless be seen in more positive terms as a geographical project, since the Céloron expedition was the starting point for the first map of the Ohio Valley.

Some projects have attempted to incorporate geographical data into their internet maps ( for example, to draw locations of routers and nodes on a map of the world ), but others are only concerned with representing the more abstract structures of the internet, such as the allocation, structure, and purpose of IP space.

But even a geographical map fully embodies in itself a set of strict rules for finding one's way through a region of otherwise uncharted experience.

If it were possible to draw a map of the world on the basis of Weltanschauung, it would probably be seen to cross political borders — Weltanschauung is the product of political borders and common experiences of a people from a geographical region, environmental-climatic conditions, the economic resources available, socio-cultural systems, and the language family.

The map included with the article highlights geographical features the Brontës reference in their tales: the Jibbel Kumera ( the Mountains of the Moon ), Ashantee, and the rivers Niger and Calabar.

In addition, the Thomas Brothers digital database can be licensed to companies and governments to use as a base map for geographical information systems applications.

A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names ( see: toponymy ), used in conjunction with a map or a full atlas.

To supplement his ' new large Map of England ' from 1677, the English cartographer John Adams compiled the extensive gazetteer " Index Villaris " in 1680 that had some 24, 000 places listed with geographical coordinates coinciding with the map.

*** allows searching for any or a specified type of geographical feature within a rectangular area or the whole world, with a name equal to or containing the search term ; returns coordinates, country and province with a small scale map.

Hazeltine was drawn to the site because of its abundant water power, fertile prairies, and its proximity to the geographical center of Richland County.

This fluidity explains in part the different interpretations of the geographical line of division in the two maps given here, one drawn up in the West, the other in a country where Eastern Orthodoxy predominates.

The EET ( UTC + 2 ) time zone, were it drawn by purely geographical terms, would consist of exactly the area between meridians 22 ° 30 ' E and 37 ° 30 ' E. As a result, there are European locales that despite lying in an area with a " physical " UTC + 2 time, actually use another time zone ; contrariwise, there are European areas that have gone for UTC + 2, even though their " physical " time zone is different from that.

His Explanation in Geography ( 1969 ) was a landmark text in the methodology and philosophy of geography, applying principles drawn from the philosophy of science in general to the field of geographical knowledge.

For the time of the Hungarian royal tax registration in 1495, conclusions for a probable absolute or relative „ ethnic ” majority of the population living in the area were drawn from the given sources through analysing direct references of „ ethnic nature ”, in most cases by the linguistic analysis of taxpayers ’ names and that of geographical names.

Illustrative quotations are drawn both from spoken Norwegian ( with a geographical reference ) and from literature.

Due to the geography of Stroud and its environs, these students are drawn from a very wide geographical area of central and southern Gloucestershire, usually from over 60 different feeder primary schools.

All areas of history were either favorably or adversely affected by the geographical environment, and no respectable historian could pursue the study of history without a thorough knowledge of geography.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

Interpretation, naturally, remains the role of the therapist, but orientation -- not only the patient's vocal giveaways of geographical and socio-economic background, but also vocal but non-verbal giveaways of danger spots in his relationship to people -- can be considerably beefed up by the linguist.

King-Doyle Park was later adopted as a geographical name by the USGS.

Larger geographical areas, called Territories, are led by a Territorial Commander, who is the highest-ranking officer in that Territory.

It is in fact likely that, after the region took on the name of its early inhabitants, later settlers were also known by the accepted geographical name.

In the early 1990s, the five geographical Regions were replaced by a Sector organisation, where passenger services were organised into Inter City, Network SouthEast and Other Provincial Services sectors.

Whether these were consisted only of Goths is rather unlikely so the name " Scythians " by which the Greek sources called them ( a geographical definition ) seems more appropriate.

The Khmer language has influenced, and also been influenced by, Thai, Lao, Vietnamese and Cham, all of which, due to geographical proximity and long-term cultural contact, form a sprachbund in peninsular Southeast Asia.

Chile ’ s extreme north-south orientation produces 7 different macro-regions distinguished by climate and geographical features, which allows the country itself to stagger harvests and results in extended harvesting seasons.

In the years following the Revolution, Concord's central geographical location made it a logical choice for the state capital, particularly after Samuel Blodget in 1807 opened a canal and lock system to allow vessels passage around the Amoskeag Falls downriver, connecting Concord with Boston by way of the Middlesex Canal.

Additionally, many of the Conan stories by Howard, de Camp and Carter used geographical place names from Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean Cycle.

This division — as much cultural as geographical — was used until the Late Middle Ages, when it was challenged by the Age of Discovery.

The theorist Anthony D. Smith uses the term ' ethnic nationalism ' for non-Western concepts of nationalism as opposed to Western views of a nation defined by its geographical territory.

A minority of scholars have argued that the " Galatia " is an ethnic reference to a Celtic people living in northern Asia Minor, but most agree that it is a geographical reference to the Roman province in central Asia Minor, which had been settled by immigrant Celts in the 270s BC and retained Gaulish features of culture and language in Paul's day.

The area, roughly encompassing the later geographical meanings of Flanders, had been inhabited by Celts until Germanic people began immigrating by crossing the Rhine, either gradually driving them south-or westwards, or rather merging with them.

The geographical mile is a unit of length determined by 1 minute of arc along the Earth's equator.

The Danish and German geographical mile ( geografisk mil and geographische Meile or geographische Landmeile, respectively ) is 4 minutes of arc, and was defined as approximately 7421. 5 metres by the astronomer Ole Rømer of Denmark.

The Levant is a geographical term that refers to a large area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and the Zagros Mountains in the east.

Shanghai claimed in particular to have a geographical advantage, and a municipal government that dreams of turning the city into China's main economic centre by as early as 2010.

, there were 18, 138 taxis in Hong Kong, operating in three distinct ( but slightly overlapping ) geographical areas, and distinguished by their colour.