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The article deals with the topic of assessment of the accuracy of Vogt’s map of Bohemia. This map belongs among significant cartographic works depicting the Czech Lands in the period 1526 – 1720. The methodology of accuracy assessment is based on cartometric and geometric analyses of sets of identical points in the old map and of a reference map, using the technique of multiquadratic interpolation. The national topographic database is used as a reference data set. The results of the analysis including scale isolines, rotation, displacement vectors of identical points were visualized using the MapAnalyst software and the extension software ArcGIS, 3D Analyst.
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This article was enabled by the GAČR grant no. 205/07/0385 “Cartometric and semiotic analysis and visualisation of the old Czech Lands maps in the period 1518–1720”. The authors would like to give their thanks to Ing. Petr Janský, CSc, the administrator of the Map Collection of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, for granting them the raster data of the original of Vogt’s map.
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Bayer, T., Potůčková, M., Čábelka, M. (2009). Cartometric Analysis of Old Maps on the Example of Vogt’s Map. In: Gartner, G., Ortag, F. (eds) Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03294-3_33
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