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Chapter 4: Encoding Our World: Geographic Data Representation

  • Overview
  • 4.1 Feature Versus Attributes
  • 4.2 Attribute Measurement Scales
  • 4.3 Database Management Systems
  • 4.4 Metadata
  • 4.5 Vector Versus Raster
  • 4.6 Summary
  • 4.7 Glossary
  • 4.8 Bibliography

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  • GEOG 160: Mapping our Changing World
    • Chapter 1: Location is Where It’s At: Introduction to GIScience and Technology
    • Chapter 2: Shrinking and Flattening the Globe: Scale, Projections, and Datums
    • Chapter 3: Can I Map That? Maps to Depict Anything in Our World
    • Chapter 4: Encoding Our World: Geographic Data Representation
      • Overview
      • 4.1 Feature Versus Attributes
      • 4.2 Attribute Measurement Scales
      • 4.3 Database Management Systems
      • 4.4 Metadata
      • 4.5 Vector Versus Raster
      • 4.6 Summary
      • 4.7 Glossary
      • 4.8 Bibliography
    • Chapter 5: How We Know Where We Are: Land Surveying, GPS, and Technology
    • Chapter 6: Can We Get There From Here? Applications of Topology, TIGER, and Geocoding
    • Chapter 7: Remote Sensing: Imaging Our World
    • Chapter 8: Representing Surfaces
    • Chapter 9: Geo-Analytics: From Data to Answers

Author: Joshua Stevens, Jennifer M. Smith, and Raechel A. Bianchetti (2012), Mapping Our Changing World, Editors: Alan M. MacEachren and Donna J. Peuquet, University Park, PA: Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University.

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