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Title: Gulf of Fonseca, Republic of Honduras, Bah’a de San Lorenzo (Raster Image)

• Land Info (Firm)
• United States. Defense Mapping Agency

Dates

• Issued: 2009
• Coverage: 2004

Publishers

• Land Info (Firm)

Summary

This layer is a digital raster graphic (DRG) of a scanned nautical chart titled "Gulf of Fonseca, Republic of Honduras, Baha de San Lorenzo." It was originally published by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (Chart number: 21526. 4th Ed., Jan-85; Scale:1:200000). Geographic areas covered by this map include the coast of Antarctica. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced maps from the Branner Library Map Collection at Stanford University. Historic paper maps can provide an excellent view of the changes that have occurred in the cultural and physical landscape. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography, and urban and rural land use change. As this map has been georeferenced, it can be used in a GIS as a source or background layer in conjunction with other GIS data. Land Info and U.S. Defense Mapping Agency. (2006). Gulf of Fonseca, Republic of Honduras, Bah’a de San Lorenzo (Raster Image). Land Info. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/jd211rk8555. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

• Fonseca, Gulf of
• San Lorenzo Bay (Honduras)
• San Lorenzo (Valle, Honduras)
• Nautical charts
• Coasts
• Harbors
• Maps
• Imagery and Base Maps
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-87.6333216, -87.3958086, 13.3635296, 13.1987819)
• Geometry: BBOX (-87.6333216, -87.3958086, 13.3635296, 13.1987819)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

• Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Land Info (Firm), United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Gulf of Fonseca, Republic of Honduras, Bah’a de San Lorenzo (Raster Image). Land Info (Firm). Raster data. https://purl.stanford.edu/jd211rk8555

Format

GeoTIFF

Languages

• English