Great-circle charts
Esquema
Jerarquía
Visual and Verbal Communication (Hierarchy Name) > Information Forms (Hierarchy Name) > information forms > document genres > <document genres by form> > graphic document genres > cartographic materials > maps (documents) > <maps by subject type>
Descripción
Refers to maps of large areas, often an ocean, depicted in a small scale by gnomonic projection. They are laid out to allow calculation of a great-circle route, which is the shortest course between two points on the surface of the sphere of the Earth.
URI original del concepto
Otros términos
- grootcirkelkaarten [nl]
- cartas de círculos máximos [es]
- great-circle chart [en]
- chart, great-circle [en]
- charts, great-circle [en]
- carta de círculos máximos [es]