<P> With the establishment of the British Raj in India, modern European cartographic traditions were officially employed by the British Survey of India (1767). One British observer commented on the tradition of native Indian cartography: </P> <P> Besides geographical tracts, the Hindus have also maps of the world according to the system of the puranics and of the astronomers: the latter are very common . They also have maps of India and of particular districts, in which latitudes and longitudes are entirely out of question, and they never make use of scale of equal parts . The sea shores, rivers and ranges of mountains are represented by straight lines . </P> <P> The Great Trigonometric Survey, a project of the Survey of India throughout most of the 19th century, was piloted in its initial stages by William Lambton, and later by George Everest . To achieve the highest accuracy a number of corrections were applied to all distances calculated from simple trigonometry: </P> <Ul> <Li> Curvature of the earth </Li> <Li> The non spherical nature of the curvature of the earth </Li> <Li> Gravitational influence of mountains on pendulums </Li> <Li> Refraction </Li> <Li> Height above sea level </Li> </Ul>

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