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1. Terrestrial Cartography

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   Terrestrial cartography is the branch of geodesy and geography concerned with the depiction of the Earth's surface ($\text{Earth}$), or portions thereof, onto a two-dimensional medium. It involves the systematic gathering, processing, analyzing, and interpretation of spatial data to produce maps and related cartographic products. Unlike celestial cartography, which maps non-terrestrial bodies, terrestrial mapping is fundamentally constrained by the Earth's [oblate spheroid](/entries/oblate-s…