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Chapter 5 Working With Digital Spatial Data and GIS
a MapInfo Professional (from Pitney Bowes Business Insight)
a Maptitude (from Caliper Corporation)
Chapter Wrapup
No matter the provider, the software, or the data representation format, GIS
has a wide variety of uses, ranging from public utility mapping to law enforcement analysis, to fire tracking, to landscape planning. The next chapter will
examine a number of different types of GIS analysis and address how to take
this spatial data and start doing things with it.
The lab for this chapter provides an introduction to GIS and some basic
handling of spatial data. Two versions of the lab have been designed—the first
one, Geospatial Lab Application 5.1: GIS Introduction: AEJEE Version, uses the
free AEJEE software package, and the second one, Geospatial Lab Application
5.2: GIS Introduction: ArcGIS Version, uses ArcGIS 10. Both labs (5.1 and 5.2)
use the same data and concepts, but implement them differently, depending
on which software package you have available to you.
Important note: the references for this chapter are part of the online
companion for this book and can be found at http://www.whfreeman.
com/shellito1e.
Key Terms
Geographic Information System
(p. 99)
CGIS (p. 101)
discrete object view (p. 102)
points (p. 102)
lines (p. 102)
polygons (p. 102)
vector objects (p. 103)
vector data model (p. 103)
digitizing (p. 103)
topology (p. 104)
DLG (p. 105)
continuous field view (p. 106)
raster data model (p. 106)
grid cell (p. 107)
NLCD (p. 107)
attributes (p. 109)
nominal data (p. 109)
ordinal data (p. 109)
interval data (p. 109)
ratio data (p. 109)
attribute table (p. 110)
records (p. 110)
fields (p. 110)
join (p. 111)
key (p. 111)
metadata (p. 112)
Esri (p. 113)
Arc/Info (p. 113)
ArcView (p. 113)
ArcGIS (p. 114)
ArcMap (p. 114)
Catalog (p. 115)
AEJEE (p. 115)
ArcGIS Explorer (p. 115)
coverage (p. 116)
shapefile (p. 117)
geodatabase (p. 117)
Chapter 5 Working With Digital Spatial Data and GIS
a MapInfo Professional (from Pitney Bowes Business Insight)
a Maptitude (from Caliper Corporation)
Chapter Wrapup
No matter the provider, the software, or the data representation format, GIS
has a wide variety of uses, ranging from public utility mapping to law enforcement analysis, to fire tracking, to landscape planning. The next chapter will
examine a number of different types of GIS analysis and address how to take
this spatial data and start doing things with it.
The lab for this chapter provides an introduction to GIS and some basic
handling of spatial data. Two versions of the lab have been designed—the first
one, Geospatial Lab Application 5.1: GIS Introduction: AEJEE Version, uses the
free AEJEE software package, and the second one, Geospatial Lab Application
5.2: GIS Introduction: ArcGIS Version, uses ArcGIS 10. Both labs (5.1 and 5.2)
use the same data and concepts, but implement them differently, depending
on which software package you have available to you.
Important note: the references for this chapter are part of the online
companion for this book and can be found at http://www.whfreeman.
com/shellito1e.
Key Terms
Geographic Information System
(p. 99)
CGIS (p. 101)
discrete object view (p. 102)
points (p. 102)
lines (p. 102)
polygons (p. 102)
vector objects (p. 103)
vector data model (p. 103)
digitizing (p. 103)
topology (p. 104)
DLG (p. 105)
continuous field view (p. 106)
raster data model (p. 106)
grid cell (p. 107)
NLCD (p. 107)
attributes (p. 109)
nominal data (p. 109)
ordinal data (p. 109)
interval data (p. 109)
ratio data (p. 109)
attribute table (p. 110)
records (p. 110)
fields (p. 110)
join (p. 111)
key (p. 111)
metadata (p. 112)
Esri (p. 113)
Arc/Info (p. 113)
ArcView (p. 113)
ArcGIS (p. 114)
ArcMap (p. 114)
Catalog (p. 115)
AEJEE (p. 115)
ArcGIS Explorer (p. 115)
coverage (p. 116)
shapefile (p. 117)
geodatabase (p. 117)