A reproduction of a photograph or photomosaic upon which the grid lines, marginal data, contours, place names, boundaries, and other data may be added.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
Such a survey is usually performed with the use of the intersection method or the single image method in cases where only a photomap (two-dimensional, e.g.
Perhaps the most interesting one is Appendix 2, Sample Topographic and Special Maps, which includes topographic maps and city plans in various scales, geographic survey maps, an aeronautical chart, a marine chart, a terrain variation map, a geodetic data map, a river segment map, a mountain pass and passage map, a water source map, an aerial photograph with coordinate grid, a photomontage, a photographic plan and a photomap. The issue with complete comprehension of course is the fact that all notations are in Russian with no transliteration or translation provided.
Runner-up: PhotoMap (Germany) - This application digitizes and stores a photograph of any fixed public map taken with a camera phone for easy access, browsing and geo-referencing on the mobile device.
In the PhotoMap 3-D profilometer from Fogale nanotech, white-light interferometry is used together with very accurate Z-axis displacement to provide 0.1-nm height resolution over a 500-[micro]m range.
Point data were loaded into a Geographic Information System (GIS, Arc View, ESRI Corporation 1999), where they were overlaid on a Digital Ortho Quarter Quadrangle photographic map (US Geological Survey 1998); and a habitat map that was digitized from the photomap and ground-checked to include recent habitat changes.