GIS, Maps, and Software
Three elements that are essential to a map
What is Title, Legend and Scale?
Taking a 3D image and making it 2D -- distortion will occur.
What is a projection?
Essential located at the top of a map, used to identify what the map is representing.
What is a title?
A not so favored GIS task usually passed off to summer interns.
What is digitizing?
Data about data
What is metadata?
A map is a type of map specifically designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area.
What is the thematic map?
In ESRI terminology, a name given to a GIS database
What is a Geodatabase?
A term that refers to the number of pixels utilized in construction of a digital image
Used to identify where the information in the map came from.
What is a source?
A device/technology that is typically used to collect spatial data in the field.
What is GPS?
They preserve angular relationships around a point by uniformly preserving scale relations about that point in all directions. Therefore, Shapes/angles are correctly represented (locally).
What are the conformal projections?
For a common point symbol, these are the three most commonly changed symbol properties.
What are color, size, outline?
A scripting language used to customize GIS analysis.
What is Python?
It is the geometry that results from projecting a circle of infinitesimal radius from a curved geometric model, such as a globe, onto a map.
What is a Tissot indicatrix?
Used to show the size of a geographic area.
What is a scale?