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A Reference Card or "Romer" is a device for increasing the accuracy when reading a grid reference from a map. Made from transparent plastic, paper or other materials, they are also found on most baseplate compasses. Essentially, it is a specially marked-out ruler which matches the scale of the map in use. The scales are laid out in reverse, such that by lining up the numbers given in the grid reference with the gridlines for the square in question, the corner of the romer lies on the location whose grid reference you wish to read. Some transparent versions have a small hole at the origin when this is not at the corner of the Reference Card. This allows access to the map such that the location could be marked with a pencil if using the Reference Card in reverse having been given a grid reference to start with. They are used in many types of land navigation.
Romers can easily be made yourself; by hand, by using a computer or by finding a website with instructions.
They describe only an approximate location. The smaller the scale on the map, the less accurate the romer reading. On 1:25,000 maps, such as the British Ordnance Survey Explorer Series, a 6 figure grid reference gives an area of 10,000m. This is larger than a football pitch (soccer field). A more popular and accurate device is a Grid Reference Tool.
Invented and developed for car navigational rallies by car rally partners Eric Gardner and John Cridford during the early 1950s, the 'Garford Romer' was available for both Imperial and Metric OS maps and is still sold today. Although a registered design when it was first made and sold it was and still is much copied.
The illustration below shows how the romer is used. Here, we are plotting the reference 696018. The marks corresponding to (6, 8) on the romer are lined up along the gridlines (69, 01). The hole near the corner yields the exact point, the church at Little Plumpton.
Römer is a lunar impact crater that is located to the north of the Sinus Amoris in the northeast section of the Moon. It lies in the southwestern part of the mountainous region named the Montes Taurus. To the west-northwest is the crater-bay Le Monnier, on the eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis.
The rim of Römer has relatively high walls with a terraced inner surface. There is a small craterlet on the north part of the floor, and a large central peak at the midpoint. Römer has a ray system, and due to these rays, it is mapped as part of the Copernican System.
To the northwest of the crater is a prominent system of rilles named the Rimae Römer. These follow a course to the north from the western rim of the crater, and have a combined length of about 110 kilometres.
The Römer (German surname, "Roman") is a medieval building in the Altstadt of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and one of the city's most important landmarks. The Römer is located opposite the Old St. Nicholas church and has been the city hall (Rathaus) of Frankfurt for over 600 years. The Römer merchant family sold it together with a second building, the Goldener Schwan (Golden Swan), to the city council on March 11, 1405 and it was converted for use as the city hall. The Haus Römer is actually the middle building of a set of three located in the Römerberg (a plaza).
The Römer is not a museum as it is occasionally used by the city for various purposes, for example as a Standesamt or civil registration office; the wedding rooms are located in the first and second floor of the Haus Löwenstein.
The former old town quarter between the Römer and St. Bartholomew's Cathedral will be redeveloped as the Dom-Römer Quarter until 2016, including several reconstructions of historical buildings that were destroyed during World War II.
A romer is a cartographic measuring tool.
Romer, Römer, Roemer, or similar may also refer to:
Romer is a surname. Some individuals with the surname include:
- Wolfgang William Romer (1640–1713), Dutch/British military engineer
- Ole Rømer (1644–1710), Danish astronomer
- John Lambertus Romer (1680–1754), British military engineer
- Johann Jacob Roemer (1763–1819), Swiss physician and naturalist
- Michał Józef Römer (1778–1853), politician, writer, and notable member of the Polish-Lithuanian gentry
- Isabella Frances Romer (1798–1852), English travel writer and novelist
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(1806−1878), Polish painter
- Friedrich Adolph Roemer (1809–1869), German geologist
- Ferdinand von Roemer (1818–1891), German geologist, brother of Friedrich Adolph Roemer
- John Romer (politician) (fl. 1831), 19th century Governor of Bombay
- Alfred Isidore Romer, (1832-1897), Belarusian, Polish and Lithuanian painter, sculptor, carver and medalist, participant of the January Uprising (1863)
- Sir Robert Romer (1840–1918), British judge
- Edward Mateusz Römer (1848-1900), Polish painter
- Mark Romer, Baron Romer (1866–1944), British judge
- Eugeniusz Romer (1871–1954), Polish cartographer
- Michał Pius Römer (1880–1945), Lithuanian lawyer
- Josef “Beppo” Römer (1892–1944), German anti-fascist Freikorps leader and KPD organizer
- Alfred Romer (1894–1973), U.S. paleontologist
- Tadeusz Romer (1894–1978), Polish diplomat and politician
- Sir Charles Romer (1897–1969), British judge
- Edmund Romer (1904-1988), Polish engineer, metrologist
- Charles E. Roemer, II (1923-2012), Louisiana planter, businessman, and politician
- William F. Roemer, Jr. (1926–1996), U.S. FBI agent
- Piet Römer (born 1928), Dutch actor
- Roy Romer (born 1928), governor of Colorado
- Elizabeth Roemer (born 1929), U.S. astronomer
- John Romer (Egyptologist) (born 1941), British egyptologist
- Buddy Roemer (born 1943), governor of Louisiana
- John Roemer (born 1945), U.S. economist
- Hanne Rømer (born 1949), Danish composer
- Paul Romer (born 1955), U.S. economist
- Timothy J. Roemer (born 1956), U.S. politician and ambassador
- Christina Romer (born 1958), U.S. economist, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
- David Romer (born 1958), U.S. economist
- Marcus Romer (born 1961), UK theatre director
- Emile Roemer (born 1962), Dutch politician
- Max Joseph Roemer (1791–1849), was a German botanist
- Sarah Roemer (born 1984), U.S. actress
Usage examples of "romer".
Postmaster, justice of the peace and mayor, Joel Romer was a bald-headed, constantly perspiring, but constantly laughing fellow with a moonlike face.
Joel Romer standing in the broad porch of his general store, which was also the village post office.
The Syrian knew without seeing the letter that Joel Romer had received a threat from the Moon Riders.
Joel Romer was almost apoplectic with rage as he held up and read the few typewritten lines of a letter he had received.
He recalled that Deputy Roden had slipped away while Joel Romer was reading his Moon Rider letter, and was declaring he would summon the government men.
Joel Romer, Marshal Simpson, a pottering, stoop-shouldered clerk and bookkeeper, and Audrey Romer were there.
Audrey was the daughter of Joel Romer, and she probably had her good looks from her mother.
Joel Romer was badly frightened or burning with anger over the threatening letter.
But he was fully aware of Audrey Romer bringing a dampened towel and wiping the blood from his face.
He was named Jonas Loney and Allison knew he boarded at the Joel Romer home.
Joel Romer came on into the store, Allison apparently recovered consciousness.
He knew when Romer came in behind him, and at that minute he was connected with a city down below.
Joel Romer slapped him through the door and sent him spinning into the dusty street.
His swinging knuckles caught Joel Romer with hard swung rights and lefts that more than evened the score.
He thought grimly that no matter how this came out, his chance of any future acquaintance with Audrey Romer was less than one in a million.