Understanding the Basis of Schmitt’s Map of South Germany: Georeferencing the Sketches of Staržinsky and Sarret (Late 1790’s)

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Název: Understanding the Basis of Schmitt’s Map of South Germany: Georeferencing the Sketches of Staržinsky and Sarret (Late 1790’s)
Autoři: Eszter Kiss, Gábor Timár
Zdroj: Geographies, Vol 4, Iss 3, Pp 500-512 (2024)
Informace o vydavateli: MDPI AG, 2024.
Rok vydání: 2024
Témata: Staržinsky-Sarret survey, Geography (General), 18th century, georeferenced, historical cartography, Staržinsky-Sarret-Vermessung -- Schmitt'sche Karte -- Schmitt, Johann Heinrich von -- 18. Jahrhundert -- Georeferenzierung -- Historische Kartografie -- Historische Karte, article, ddc:520, G1-922, Schmitt's map, MAPIRE - Historical maps of the Habsburg empire, Staržinsky-Sarret survey -- Schmitt's map -- 18th century -- georeferencing -- historical cartography
Popis: Schmitt’s map was one of the outstanding survey products of the late 18th century, produced through Habsburg military mapping in the shadow of the Napoleonic Wars in the area of today’s southern Germany and some neighboring regions. The main geodetic basis for the map work was the series of surveys in Germany conducted by C.-F. Cassini de Thury in the 1760s. However, this was only a horizontal control for part of Schmitt’s map. The Cassini survey chains were linked in the 1790s by a complementary survey in the northern part of the map work: the Staržinsky-Sarret survey, which is the subject of this study. The authors have searched through the archive summary drafts of this survey. The georeferencing of the photographed sketches in the Cassini projection was feasible with surprisingly low error. By using the global SRTM elevation database, it was possible to identify the points/summits of the Staržinsky-Sarret survey between which visibility is possible. Thus, despite the fact that only one of the seven map sketches examined explicitly presents a triangulation structure, we present a possible triangulation pattern that could have been used to provide geodetic control in the northern part of the Schmitt map. The authors consider this survey as the basis for the assumption that georeferencing the Schmitt map in its own projection is possible in this area with relatively small residual errors.
Druh dokumentu: Article
Popis souboru: 1 Online-Ressource (Seite 500-512, 18,61 MB) : 9 Illustrationen, 1 Textdatei (PDF)
Jazyk: English
ISSN: 2673-7086
DOI: 10.3390/geographies4030027
Přístupová URL adresa: https://doaj.org/article/c73e8e722a8146b5a7b1410113cbf978
https://kartdok.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/receive/kartdok_mods_00001273
Rights: CC BY
Přístupové číslo: edsair.doi.dedup.....1b890bf919c7da77f7b5fc8c1f0c749f
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:Schmitt’s map was one of the outstanding survey products of the late 18th century, produced through Habsburg military mapping in the shadow of the Napoleonic Wars in the area of today’s southern Germany and some neighboring regions. The main geodetic basis for the map work was the series of surveys in Germany conducted by C.-F. Cassini de Thury in the 1760s. However, this was only a horizontal control for part of Schmitt’s map. The Cassini survey chains were linked in the 1790s by a complementary survey in the northern part of the map work: the Staržinsky-Sarret survey, which is the subject of this study. The authors have searched through the archive summary drafts of this survey. The georeferencing of the photographed sketches in the Cassini projection was feasible with surprisingly low error. By using the global SRTM elevation database, it was possible to identify the points/summits of the Staržinsky-Sarret survey between which visibility is possible. Thus, despite the fact that only one of the seven map sketches examined explicitly presents a triangulation structure, we present a possible triangulation pattern that could have been used to provide geodetic control in the northern part of the Schmitt map. The authors consider this survey as the basis for the assumption that georeferencing the Schmitt map in its own projection is possible in this area with relatively small residual errors.
ISSN:26737086
DOI:10.3390/geographies4030027