ABSTRACT
The area of the Dominican Republic is slightly more than twice the size of New Hampshire. Eventually the entire island became to be ruled by Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer from 1822 until the eastern two-thirds revolted and formed the Dominican Republic in 1844. The third comprehensive map of the Dominican Republic was compiled by Ing. Later reorganized as the Instituto Cartografico Universitario, a joint agreement was signed in 1946 with the Latin American branch of the US Army Map Service, the Inter-American Geodetic Survey. The system devised for the Dominican Republic was based on the same rationale that the US Coast & Geodetic Survey used for the State Plane Coordinate Systems of the United States. The rule of thumb was for regions that are predominately north-south in extent; the Transverse Mercator projection was used. For regions that are predominately east-west in extent, as is the Dominican Republic, the Lambert Conformal Conic projection was used.
