GIS Schultz Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
the basic color | hue |
bright colors, most important graphic elements | figure |
drab colors, graphic elements that provide orientation or context | ground |
1.simple 2.compound attribute queries | query types |
1.Design maps for appropriate medium-Print vs. electronic 2.Plan a layout 3.Link layouts to map purpose 4.Choose appropriate export options | purpose of output |
1.Main map size and location 2.Map title and subtitle 3.Legend 4.Data sources 5.Graphic scale 6.North arrow 7.Neatline 8.Inset maps | map layout elements |
map unit for many local government GIS applications | feet or meter |
map unit for CAD applications | inch |
1. .BMP, .TIF, .JPG 2.Size/Resolution 3.Color options | Raster |
1. Enhanced Metafile (.emf)Encapsulated 2.PostScript (.eps), Adobe Illustrator (.ai) | Vector |
.JPG, .PDF | Web |
1.ArcGIS Server 2.ARCIMS 3.ArcExplorer 4.ArcReader 5.KML | other outputs |
1.dBase(.dbf) 2.Text with comma or tab-separatedvalues(.csv) 3.Microsoft Access(.mdb) 4.Excel(.xls) | directly loadable data types |
1.Manage coverages, shapefiles, tablesinside a DBMS 2.Enterprise geodatabase 3.Personal geodatabase 4.Appears as an .mdb file | Geodatabases |
1.More accurately represents shape of features 2.Many users can edit geophic data 3.Modern orgs prefer a database approach to working with map layers 4.Provides a uniform and IT compliantrepository for geophic data 5.Geodatabase is ESRI preferred format | Geodatabases Advantages |
1.Putting two tables together to makeone table 2.Join two tables one-to-one by row 3.Join on primary key attributes 4.Primary key attributes do not need to have the same names 5.Must have the same values and datatypes | data table joins |
1.Data in fields not exactly the same 2.Different data field types 3.Saving.CSV files in Excel is difficult and time consuming 4.Using Micro. Access as middle man is time consuming | problems with joins |
1.Spatially counts points(historic places) within polygons(neighborhoods)2.Joins using shape(not attribute field) 3.Join points to polygons or polygons to points | spatial joins |
1.Copy,paste,re-name files 2.Edit projections, fields 3.View Metadata 4.Edit metadata(Arc Info) | Arc Catalog Functions |
1.Calculations 2.Populates fields 3.Concatenates fields | Field Calculator Functions |
1.Federal Information Processing Standards2.Developed by the National Insitute of Standadrds and Technology (NIST)3.Codes for place names throughout the world | Geocodes and FIPS codes |
1.ArcInfo Coverages2.ArcView Shapefiles3.CAD Files4.Aerial Photos5.Event Files | Types of GIS Data Sets |
1.ArcView native format2.Widely used3.Minimum Files-.shp,.shx,.dbf 4.Additional Files-.prj,.xml,.sbn and .sbx | ArcView Shapefiles |
1.heads-up digitizing and editing2.less storage/rapid display3.can export to CAD | ArcView Shapefile Advantages |
1.one feature type2.no area or perimeter with new shapefiles | ArcView Shapefile Disadvantages |
1.Created with ArcInfo (ESRI)2.Older ESRI format3.Set of files withing a folder or directory called a workspace4.FIles represent different types of topology or feature types5.Directory names INFO | ArcInfo Coverages |
1.Many Feature types2.polygons share borders3.area/perimeter fields automatic | ArcInfo Coverages Advantages |
Cannot edit in ArcMaap | ArcInfo Coverages Disadvantages |
1.polygon 2.arc 3.annotation 4.tic 5.lable | polygon coverage feature types |
1.ESRIs highly compressed format2.directly readable by ArcGIS software3.many ESRI data and map datasets are natively in SDC format | Smart Data Compression SDC |
TIFF (Tagged Image File Formats), GIF (Graphic Interchange Format), JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) | digital File formats |
high quality images, commonly used in publishing, sizes are large because uncompressed | TIFF |
ideal for schematic drawing that have relatively large areas with solid color fill and few color variations, small file sizes | GIF |
most widely-used format for photographs and other images that have a lot of color variations, uses file compression at the expense of picture detail | JPG |
1.Geographic Coordinate System(GCS)2.Spherical coordinates3.Angels of rotation of a radius anchored at Earths center4.Latitude and Longitude | coordinate systems |
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