Correlation testing of Müller’s map of Bohemia and the First Military Survey maps in the area of today’s Czechia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21110%2F17%3A00320119" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21110/17:00320119 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://cartography.web.auth.gr/ICA-Heritage/Venice2017/proceedings.html" target="_blank" >http://cartography.web.auth.gr/ICA-Heritage/Venice2017/proceedings.html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Correlation testing of Müller’s map of Bohemia and the First Military Survey maps in the area of today’s Czechia

Original language description

The paper attempts to bring answer to a hypothesis assuming a relation of origin of maps of the First Military Survey, performed by the Habsburg Empire in the last third of the 18th century, with their predecessor – maps of Bohemia and other lands created by Johann Christoph Müller. Records in literature mention the geospatial origin of the military maps as miniatures of Müller’s maps but no clear evidence to this statement has been performed. Within the paper, a correlation analysis using seamless rasters of joined map sheets adjusted to their original sheet size has been used for both map works. The preliminary results show a significant closeness of the mentioned statement to the truth. Within the computations, the ratio of scale numbers of both works has been defined, allowing estimating the scale number of Müller’s map using the known value for the military mapping. Furthermore, deviations of rotation and position accuracy of both works have been examined. As an intermediate environment, the Křovák’s system to which the Müller’s maps had formerly been georeferenced was chosen. Using it, testing of normal probability distribution of errors of both map works has been performed allowing drawing conclusions about systematic or random character of the deviations. At last, visualizations showing differences between rendition of the maps’ deformation grid to an ideal state as well as further outputs have been presented. A relatively serious issue in the computations is constituted by large amount of control points (several thousand for both map works and whole Bohemia), which limited deployment of more robust solutions of spatial transformation computation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

<a href="/en/project/DG16P02H010" target="_blank" >DG16P02H010: Czech Historical Atlas</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage

ISBN

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ISSN

2459-3893

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

177-183

Publisher name

AUTH CartoGeoLab

Place of publication

Thessaloniki

Event location

Venice

Event date

Apr 26, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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