• The Science & Technology
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• v.30 no.1 s.332
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• pp.32-34
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• 1997

1861년 대동여지도를 만든 김정호는 어디서 태어나 언제 죽었는지도 모르는 신비 속의 인물이다. 지금의 마포 근처에서 살았다는 김정호는 22첩으로 된 가로 3m, 세로 7m의 대동여지도를 목판으로 인쇄하여 펴낸 과학인물이다. 대동여지도는 지금의 16만분의 1지도와 비슷한 것으로 산, 하천, 고을, 길 등이 정확하게 표시되어 있다. 평생을 지도제작에 바친 그의 뛰어난 과학정신이 새롭게 평가되고 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.438-455
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• 2014

This study aims at providing a set of viable answers regarding the projection and cartographic scale of Daedongyeojido through a GIS-based planimetric accuracy analysis. Both global and local analyses were undertaken in the use of an analytical tool, MapAnalyst. The main results from the global analysis are threefold. First, the overall cartographic scale turned out to be between 1:158,000 and 1:162,000. Second, the rotation angles were between $2^{\circ}$ and $3^{\circ}$, and the equidistant cylindrical projection reported the smallest value. Third, in terms of position accuracy, the conformal cylindrical projection showed a best fit to the map. A local analysis was undertaken for the conformal cylindrical and equidistant azimuthal projections and its main results are threefold. First, the largest distortions in terms of the displacement vectors and distortion grid were found in the northern borderlands. Second, from the isoline maps of scales, it was acknowledged that local scales between 1:170,000 and 1:175,000 were found around the middle part of the Korean peninsula centered on Seoul. As away from the region to the north-south direction, increasingly larger scales were distributed, while the smallest ones were found in the western and eastern edges of the peninsula. Third, from the isoline maps of rotation, it was known that areas west of a northernmost city (Junggangjin) were substantially rotated to the west, while ones east of it to the east. For a more sophisticated analysis, some need to be done to have a larger set of control points, a better way of postulating the map projection, and a more advanced set of techniques for a local analysis.