Code 120 - Coded Data Field:
Cartographic materials (Mandatory) (R)
Indicators: blank
Subfield codes
$a Cartographic Material Coded Data (General)
$a/0 Colour indicator
a = one colour
b = multicolour
$a/1 Index indicator
a = index or name list on cartographic item itself
b = index or name list accompanying cartographic item in booklet,
pamphlet, unattached cover, etc.
c = index or name list present but location not specified
y = no index or name list
$a/2 Narrative text indicator
a = text on cartographic item itself
b = text accompanying cartographic item in booklet, pamphlet,
unattached cover, etc.
y = no narrative text
$a/3-6 Relief codes
a = contours
b = continuous tone shaded relief
c = hypsometric tints layer method
d = hachures
e = bathymetry soundings
f = form lines
g = spot heights
h = other methods in colour (e.g. in the style of Imhof)
i = pictorially
j = landforms (e.g. in the style of Lobeck, Raisz, Fenneman)
k = bathymetry isolines
x = not applicable
z = other methods of relief representation
$a/7-8 Map projection
Azimuthal projections:
aa = Aitoff
ab = gnomonic
ac = Lambert's azimuthal equal area
ad = orthographic
ae = azimuthal equidistant
af = stereographic
ag = azimuthal equal area
au = azimuthal, specific type unknown
az = azimuthal, other known specific type
Conic projections:
ca = Albers equal area
cb = Bonne
cc = Lambert's conformal conic
cd = conic (simple)
ce = Miller's bipolar oblique conformal conic
cf = De Lisle
cg = projection of the International Map of the World
ch = Tissot's conformal conic
cp = polyconic
cu = conic, specific type unknown
cz = conic, other known specific type
Cylindrical projections:
ba = Gall
bb = Goode's homolographic
bc = Lambert's cylindrical equal area
bd = Mercator
be = Miller
bf = Mollweide
bg = sinusoidal
bh = transverse Mercator
bi = Gauss
bj = Plate Carree
bk = Cassini's n
bl = Laborde
bm = Oblique Mercator
bu = cylindrical, specific type unknown
bz = cylindrical, other known specific type
Other projections:
da = armadillo
db = butterfly
dc = Eckert
dd = Goode's homolosine
de = Miller's bipolar
df = Van der Griten
dg = dimaxion
dh = cordiform
di = polyhedric
uu = type of projection unknow
xx = not applicable
zz = other known type
$a/9-12 Prime meridian
aa = Greenwich, United Kingdom (Internationalprime meridian)
ab = Amsterdam, Netherlands
ac = Athens, Greece
ad = Batavia (Djakarta) Indonesia
ae = Berne, Switzerland
af = Bogota, Colombia
ag = Bombay, India
ah = Brussels, Belgium
ai = Cadiz, Spain bj
aj = Capetown, South Africa
ak = Caracas, Venezuela
al = Copenhagen, Denmark
am = Cordoba, Argentina
an = Ferro, Canary Islands
ao = Helsinki, Finland
ap = Istanbul, Turkey
aq = Julianehaab, Greenland
ar = Lisbon, Portugal
as = London, United Kingdom
at = Madras, India
ba = Madrid, Spain
bb = Mexico City, Mexico
bc = Moscow, Russia
bd = Munich, Germany
be = Naples, Italy
bf = Oslo (Christiania) Norway
bg = Paris, France
bh = Peking, People's Republic of China
bi = Philadelphia, USA
= Pulkova (Leningrad), Russia
bk = Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
bl = Rome, Italy
bm = Santiago, Chile
bn = Stockholm, Sweden
bo = Sydney, Australia
bp = Tirana, Albania
bq = Tokyo, Japan
br = Washington, DC, USA
uu = unknown
zz = other