Cartography is of fundamental importance for all geographic data characterized by a spatial attribute, i.e. datum coordinates, as it provides a possible description of the shape and size of the Earth and its natural and artificial details. The role of cartography is to map geographic facts and phenomena (e.g. places) which are identifiable by their position and which can be georeferenced, archived and referred onto maps.
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Gomarasca, M.A. (2009). Elements of Cartography. In: Basics of Geomatics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9014-1_2
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