Questions tagged [terminology]
Indicates questions asking about the use and meaning of specific technical words in GIS.
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What is a shaved polygon?
Just trying to find a definition.
I was asked this in an interview and I assumed it was a polygon created by incorrectly modifying a another polygon in a coverage.
According to my best googling ...
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How do "layer", "feature", "attribute", "field", and "data provider" relate?
I'm new to QGIS, but familiar with Python and PyQt, and am trying to make sense of the terminology of "layer", "feature", "attribute", "field", and "data ...
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Is there an equivalent term to 'imagery' in context with maps and cartography?
Is there an equivalent term to imagery in context with maps or cartography?
Mappery seems not to exist. (I'm from Germany, and some miles away from being a native-English speaker)
To explain that a ...
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What is difference between BLOB and tile in GeoPackage?
I'm new to GeoPackage, but wrote some code that will read an image file into a buffer and I then insert that buffer into the GeoPackage as a BLOB.
The image files are GeoTIFFs which contain latitude, ...
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What's the difference between classification/clustering and zoning?
A week ago I had an exam and there was a question:
What are the main steps of zoning in a GIS?
I didn't understand the question and asked the instructor what does she mean by zoning (in ...
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What is name/terminology for area in .tif satellite image file which is blank space/not land?
I have some L2 satellite images from an MSI bundle, and I need to produce a mask over the area in the file which is not the image itself - the black part in the image below.
What is the technical name ...
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Difference between Image layer and Tile Layer
what is the basic difference between Image Layer and Tile Layer? Apart from the documentation....which says below points
ol/layer/Tile - Renders sources that provide tiled images in grids that are ...
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What is the term for creating a network from scratch?
As part of my PhD, I developed a simple way of creating a road network splitting up collected coordinates based on where they cross. I know the standard method is to use a shapefile (or similar) as ...
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