PROJECT Rowland Adult and Community Education

ROWLAND HEIGHTS CA.

Table of contents
1 What is GIS. 2 Layers. 3 Scales in GIS. 4 Spatial Representation. 5 Set of attribute. 6 File formats.

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What is GIS?
A geographic information system (GIS)

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What is GIS?
GIS allows us to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. A GIS helps you answer questions and solve problems by looking at your data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.

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Layers Funciones SIG

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Scale in GIS:
The scale represents the relationship of the distance on the map to the actual distance on the ground.
Big Scale
1:500

city

1:20,000

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Small Scale
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city

1:200,000
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Spatial Representation

Such as points, lines, or polygons, and a common set of attribute columns.

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SET OF ATTRIBUTE.
Every layer is associated with a set of attribute.

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Cadastral Data Set

Main cartography

RESTITUTION

The Public Land Survey System

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File Formats
shapefiles, dBASE tables, and file types.
COVEREGE

Shapefile Geodatabase CAD

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Tables

Raster

GIS
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Shapefiles
The attributes are stored in a table database.

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 Types of files CAD with extentions DXF, DWG y DitGN

Files ASCII (.txt)

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ArcView
Title Bar Menu table

Tools bar

View window

Table of Content

Bar
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View of data

layers

Map: Cover view of data, layers and elements of the map.

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Glossory
Restitution
The determination of the true (map) position of objects or points; the image of which appears distorted or displaced on unprocessed aerial photographs. Restitution corrects for displacement resulting from both tilt and relief displacement. Restitution in classic photogrammetry is commonly achieved by analytical methods or through the use of stereoscopic plotting instruments.

Trends. To take a particular direction. Data Individual facts,statistics, or items or information.

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 Layer

A display entity comprised of one or more components that can be manipulated separately from other layers. There is often a one-to-one correspondence between layers and objects, but an individual layer may be comprised of multiple objects, such as the red, green, and blue components used to create a single layer in multiple raster display. Spatial An adjective applied to objects that vary in space in two or threedimensions. Polygons Figure having three or more,usually straight,sides. Attribute. 1.-A characteristic of a geographic feature described by numbers, characters, images and CAD drawings typically stored in tabular format and linked to the feature by a user asigned identifier (eg. attributes of a well might include depth and gallons per minute). 2.- A column in a database table.
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 Cadastre A public record, survey, or map of the

value, extent, and ownership of land as a basis of taxation.

file format
A particular, pre-described layout pattern for data in a computer file so it may becused or acted upon by a program.

Shapefile Its a file name.

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