The Digital Museum of Planetary Mapping is supported by the ICA Commission on Planetary Cartography. We collect maps of other worlds. Curator: H. Hargitai
Column name | Column description |
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Catalog ID (M) | N/A |
Title | Title of map |
Author | Name of mapper(s), or author, PI, map editor, illustrator, etc. with roles |
Nationality | Nationality of author |
Start date | Year when mapping began / or year or observation |
Date of publication | Year of publication or completion of manusctipt (empty if not published yet) |
Body | Target name (planetary body) |
Online | Online references about the map |
Projection | Projection of map. 2-hemisphere is shown here. |
Scale | N/A |
Orientation | Orientation of map [north up, south up] – only for historic maps (north: cartographic tradition, south: astronomical tradition) |
Publication type | The type of work that contains the map. [standalone, journal, conference, atlas, book figure, book supplement, book plate, encyclopedia, multisheet, digital] |
Type, purpose | Type of map purpose [generic, outreach, science, citizen, surface operation (pre mission), landing site (post mission), observer, opposition, index, reference, eclipse/transit/occultation] generic: not defined, outreach: maps for the general public made b |
Primary Nomenclature | Laguage(s) of nomenclature displayed on the map [Latin, English etc., IAU, informal]. Latin for Latin nomenclature prior to IAU. |
Ref (map) | Full reference of map publication or publication that contains the map |
DOI | DOI number of map |
ID (publication) | ID of map publication or figure number |
Origin type | If this map is not original, the following codes are used: [L: language variant, N: new print, U: updated edition, C: copied / modified from another map, R: renovation map (digital version of paper map with slight changes), F facsimile. RP: republished in |
Origin ID | Any maps that this map is based on or copied from. Database ID of original map. |
Based on map | Name of mapper |
Base (spacecraft, telescope) | Name of spacecraft / instrument |
Original title | Title of map in original langage (if not English) |
Publisher | Name of Publisher; manuscript or self-published. For journals and conferences, the name of the journal or conference. |
Coverage | Coverage of map [global, hemispheric, regional, local, landing site, landing ellipse, traverse] |
Target location | IAU name of target feature (if named) or near side, far side etc. (If nothing noted, it is global) |
Country | Country of Publisher (original/translation) |
Type, content | Type of map [photo, map, sketch map, drawing, globe, tactile, data]. Data for raster datasets. For vector data, see Feature DB. Drawing: no grid, scale, projection etc. |
Image base | Base theme of the map [shaded relief, photomosaic, photo, none] |
Theme | Theme of map [visual, albedo, radar, low sun, topography, elevation, geology, geomorphology, art, nomenclature reference, feature, landing site reference, opposition map, event (eclipse etc) etc.]. Low sun is optical photo with shadows and no albedo. Vis |
Technique | Cartographic technique [imagemap, datamap, cartographic map, unit map, airbrush, pencil, line drawing/outline, contour lines, DEM, DIM, shaded relief / hillshading, raster data etc.] |
Style | Details on style |
Method | Method how the data was obtained |
Mapping scale | Scale of mapping |
Resolution | Raster dataset resoltion [m/pixel] |
Short Reference | Short form of reference to the map publication |
GIS / data | URL where GIS or original spatial data is |
Data provider | N/A |
Profession | Profession of author (for historic maps) |
Designator | Sheet designator terms following Greeley and Batson (1990) Planetary Mapping. Cambridge University Press. – only if displayed on the map. First letter: target body, 5M: scale, 90/0 etc: center coordinates, OM – orthophotomosaic , T – Topographic data (nom |
Control | Controlled, semi-controlled, uncontrolled |
Note on control | Base of control |
Series title | Title of map series |
Number of maps (in work) | N/A |
Number of quads | N/A |
Quad ID | Quad ID (or quads IDs) contained on the map |
Map Diameter | N/A |
Map width cm | N/A |
Map height cm | N/A |
Map width px | N/A |
Map height px | N/A |
Base type | Type of instrument of observation of base data [naked eye, telescope, spacecraft, space telescope, lander] |
Location of copy | Library or archive where manuscript or rare copy is kept |
Ref (literature) | Reference – literature about the map, may be the source of data if the map is not available. Separated with # symbols. |
Status (2017) | Status of mapping [complete, in progress, in review] (mostly for USGS maps) |
Aim | Original aim of mapping, if available |
Notes | Any comments, remarks [Long text, may be multiple paragraphs] |
Secondary nomenclature | Other languages of the nomenclature |
Nomenclature Notes | Remarks on nomenclature |
Photo note | N/A |
Reference frame | ID from RefFrames |
web2 | Online references about the map |
web3 | Online references about the map |
web4 | Online references about the map |
ocentric/ographic | Map coordinate [planetographic, planetocentric] |
N | N/A |
S | N/A |
W 360E | N/A |
E 360E | N/A |
W 180 | N/A |
E 180 | N/A |
W 360W | N/A |
R 360W | N/A |
fig1 | N/A |
fig1 caption | N/A |
fig2 | N/A |
fig2 caption | N/A |
fig3 | N/A |
fig3 caption | N/A |
fig4 | N/A |
fig4 caption | N/A |
fig5 | N/A |
fig5 caption | N/A |
STATUS | N/A |
Sum | $180 |