A Proposal for Categorization of Topographic Map Components based on Peircean Semiotics
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The topographic maps are essential products for the knowledge of the territory and, although their technical requirements for making are well established, the analysis of their signs is usually based on a distinction between altimetric and planimetric components. The objective of this work is to propose a reinterpretation of these representative resources of the topographic map of the Brazilian systematic survey based on Charles Sanders Peirce's Semiotics, with the purpose of demonstrating that a semiotic categorization can reveal the types of relationships between the components of the topographic map based on the functions of the sign, in addition to serving as a way to discover hypotheses of new sign relationships in these products. As a result, these semiotic functions allow us to classify such signs in categories called indexing and qualifying, revealing from a logical perspective how a given phenomenon is georeferenced.
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