National Geographic Institute (Spain)

	National Geographic Institute (Spain) National Geographic Institute may refer to: * National Geographic Institute (Belgium) * National Geographic Institute (France) * National Geographic Institute of Guatemala * National Geographic Institute (Spain) See also * National mapping agency A national mapping agency is an organisation, usually publicly owned, that produces topographic maps and geographic information of a country. Some national mapping agencies also deal with cadastral matters. According to 2007/2/EC European dir ..., including a list of agencies * IGN (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	National Geographic Institute (Belgium) The Belgian National Geographic Institute (NGI); (french: Institut géographique national, nl, Nationaal Geografisch Instituut) is the Belgian national mapping agency. The headquarters are located at Campus Renaissance near the Cinquantenaire park in Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss .... See also * (List of) national mapping agencies External linksNGI / IGN official website National mapping agencies Geography of Belgium Government of Belgium {{cartography-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	National Geographic Institute (France) National Geographic Institute may refer to: * National Geographic Institute (Belgium) * National Geographic Institute (France) * National Geographic Institute of Guatemala * National Geographic Institute (Spain) See also * National mapping agency A national mapping agency is an organisation, usually publicly owned, that produces topographic maps and geographic information of a country. Some national mapping agencies also deal with cadastral matters. According to 2007/2/EC European directi ..., including a list of agencies * IGN (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	National Geographic Institute Of Guatemala The National Geographic Institute of Guatemala (in Spanish: ''Instituto Geográfico Nacional "Ingeniero Alfredo Obiols Gómez"'' (IGN)) is a scientific agency of the Guatemalan government. History IGN was created on 29 December 1964. In the 1930s, cartographic projects were carried out by ad hoc mapping commissions which were primarily responsible for boundary surveys.Mugnier 2008:815 The Department of Maps and Cartography (in Spanish: ''Departamento de Mapas y Cartografía'') was created in 1945 and followed by the creation of the Instituto Geográfico Nacional in 1964. In 1982 the agency was renamed to Instituto Geográfico Militar (IGM) after a merger with the Military Cartographic Service, and became a dependency of the Ministry of Defence {{unsourced, date=February 2021 A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is an often-used name for the part of a government responsible for matters of defence, found i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	National Geographic Institute (Spain) National Geographic Institute may refer to: * National Geographic Institute (Belgium) * National Geographic Institute (France) * National Geographic Institute of Guatemala * National Geographic Institute (Spain) See also * National mapping agency A national mapping agency is an organisation, usually publicly owned, that produces topographic maps and geographic information of a country. Some national mapping agencies also deal with cadastral matters. According to 2007/2/EC European dir ..., including a list of agencies * IGN (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	National Mapping Agency A national mapping agency is an organisation, usually publicly owned, that produces topographic maps and geographic information of a country. Some national mapping agencies also deal with cadastral matters. According to 2007/2/EC European directive, national mapping agencies of European Union countries must have publicly available services for searching, viewing and downloading their spatial data. Maps produced by some of them are available under a free license that allows re-use, such as a Creative Commons license. History Ordnance Survey The first national mapping agency was the Ordnance Survey in the United Kingdom; its roots go back to 1747, when the compilation of a map of the Scottish Highlands was proposed. This survey at a scale of 1 inch to 1000 yards (1:36,000) was the starting point of the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain (1783–1853), and led to the creation of the Ordnance Survey itself; work was begun in earnest in 1790, when the Board of Ordnance b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]