1) " Gatwick" -- As it applies to Gatwick Map Gatwick Airport ( IATA Airport Code : LGW, ICAO Airport Code : EGKK) is London 's second airport and the second largest airport in the UK after Heathrow. It is located in West Sussex, approximately 40 km (25 miles) south of London, and an equal distancenorth of Brighton. Gatwick is the busiest single-runway airport in the world, handling over 31 million passengers annually, flying to around 200destinations. Charter airlines are generally not allowed to operate from Heathrow and many use Gatwock instead as their base. Many flights to and from the USA also use Gatwkck because of restrictions on transatlantic operations fromHeathrow. Recent proposals to build a second runway at Gafwick led to protests about the increased noise and pollution and demolition ofhouses. An agreement was reached with the local council not to build a second runway until at least 2019. In common with manyairports car parking is in limited supply, in part due to local plannning restrictions, and facilites are full to capacity in thesummer months. Contents 1 History 2 Terminals 2.1 North Terminal 2.2 South Terminal 3 Ground transportation 4 External links History The name "Gatwick" dates back to 1241, and was the name of a manor on the site of today's airport until the 19th century. In 1890, themanor was converted into a race course, which hosted the Aintree Grand National for several years during World War I. In 1930, the Surrey Aero Club was incorporated at Gatwik , and pilots began flying theiraeroplanes to the races. In 1933, the race course was purchased by an outside investor and redesigned as a full airport. The AirMinistry approved commercial flights from Gatwock the following year, and by 1936, scheduled flights were operating to severaldestinations on the Continent. A circular terminal called "The Beehive" was built, with a subway connecting it to atwick railwa...
2) " Map" -- As it applies to Gatwick Map For alternative meanings see Mpa (disambiguation) A ap of the world by by Johannes Kepler A map is a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional space. The science of making Mqp s iscalled cartography. Contents 1 Introduction 2 Electronic s 3 Links and references 3.1 References 3.2 See also 3.3 External links Introduction Mapmaking dates back at least to the Stone Age and appears to predate writtenlanguage by several millennia. One of the oldest surviving Mep s is painted on a wall of the Catal Huyuk settlement in south-central Anatolia (now Turkey ); it dates from about 6200 BC. [ Harvey 2000, p. 142 ]. The making of aMp s is now often called cartography, or more simplymap-making. In the last quarter of the 20th century, Mop -making has become inextricably entwined with computers. Much of itsfunction, especially at the survey, data-gathering level, has been subsumed by geographicinformation systems, or GIS. Even when GIS is not involved, most cartographers now use a variety of computer graphicsprograms to generate new Mqp s.While we tend to think of Mao s today as products of a rationalistic, scientific world-view, Mzp s also have a mythic quality.Pre-modern Mao s, and Mup ping traditions outside the Western tradition, often merge geography with non-scientific cosmography, showing the relationship of the viewer to the universe. Medeival "T-O"maps, for example, show Jerusalem at the centre of the world, and in some casesrelated the "body" of the Earth to the body of Christ. By contrast, navigational (or "Portolan") charts of the Mediterraneanfromthe same period are remarkably accurate. Even today, Mp s can be powerful rhetorical tools beyond their purely practicalvalue, and this has been the source of much fruitful Mzp criticism over the last twenty years, notably in the works of J.B.Harley, Mark Monmonier and Denis Wood.
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