Chapter 2

Characteristics and Examples of Spatial Data

OVERVIEW

IN WHICH you look at a variety of geographic datasets involving vector, raster, triangulated irregular networks, and terrains. Datasets of shapefiles and geodatabases are considered, and you are introduced to Esri’s ArcMap.

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