Influence of Replacement Used Reference Coordinate System for Georeferencing of the Old Map of Europe

The article describes the effect of the replacement of the used reference coordinate system in the georeferencing of an old map of Europe. The map was georeferenced into three types of projection – the equal-area conic (original cartographic projection), cylindrical Plate Carrée and cylindrical Mercator map projection. The map was georeferenced by means of the affine and the second-order polynomial transformation. The resulting georeferenced raster datasets from the Plate Carrée and Mercator projection were projected into the equal-area conic projection by means of projection equations. The output is the comparison of drawn graphics, the magnitude of standard deviations for individual projections and types of transformation.

Authors:

• Jakub Havlicek
• Jiri Cajthaml

Keywords:

• Georeferencing
• reference coordinate system
• transformation
• standard deviation.

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