Fundamental component of mapmaking, provides mathematical means of transferring information from the earths 3D surface to paper
What is a Projection?
100
The smallest geographic unit that Census data is reported at
What is a block?
100
Mean, Median Mode are all measures of this
What are measures of central tendency?
100
First automobile-oriented shopping center
What is Country Club Plaza, Kansas City, MO?
100
Used to split land into smaller parcels, lots, or building sites
What is subdivision regulations?
200
Subdivision of a GIS database containing related data; think of as transparencies
What is a Layer?
200
Core area with large population and adjacent communities with high degree of economic econ/social integration, core must be 50K or larger
What is a MSA?
200
A test for significance, measures the confidence interval for the population variance and is based on probability. It is applied to non-parametric data
What is a Chi-Squared Test?
200
First of the massive postwar FHA suburban housing projects
What is Levittown, NY?
200
Most important and common zoning action of local government, amends zoning map, is a legislative act
What is rezoning?
300
Process of assigning X and Y coordinates to records in a database
What is geocoding?
300
Replaced the long form in the US Census, continuously being gathered.
What is the American Community Survey?
300
Measures how tightly the points on a scatter plot cluster about a straight line
What is Coefficient of Correlation?
300
First Regional Shopping Center
What is Town and Country Shopping Center (Columbus, OH - 1949)?
300
Second most common zoning operation, included to alleviate unnecessary hardship (financial)
What is a variance?
400
Data that is portrayed as small squares, like pixels
What is raster?
400
Classifies industries using a 6 digit-code
What is NAICS?
400
Measures the association between two variables, X and Y, does not mean causation
What is correlation?
400
First garden suburb in US
What is Forest Hills Gardens, Long Island, NY?
400
Restricts the use of the property against which it is recorded and is enforceable by a limited group of persons (usually landowners)
What is a covenant?
500
Data may be portrayed visually using a series of lines and polygons
What is vector?
500
Database of cartographic/data products produced by US Census
What is TIGER?
500
Used to identify the relationship between variables, a scatter plot is used to measure how tightly the observations are clustered. Estimates the average value of the dependent variable for each independent variable
What is regression analysis?
500
First American Historic District
What is Charlestown, SC?
500
Set out min/max requirements on affects or characteristics of a use, defines precisely what the community wants as an end result but allows developer choice in the means