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June 18, 2009
Organizing Your Files
It’s important to keep your work organized so that it’s easy for you or your colleagues to find information in the future. You should organize your files and file folders accord...
June 17, 2009
Scanning
The first step in creating digital maps is scanning your analog maps. It’s important that you understand the scanning process, as you need the scanned images to record or ...
June 17, 2009
Georeferencing
Once you have scanned your maps, you are ready to begin working with them. First, you need to synchronize your scanned map with other spatial data. This is done by georeferencin...
June 15, 2009
Database Design
File Types GIS has developed many different types of files over the years. The main vector types are coverages, shapefiles, and feature classes in geodatabases. It is possibl...
June 10, 2009
Digitizing
If you’ve been following along, you should have your scanned, georeferenced images and some empty geodatabases. Now, it’s time to add data into the geodatabases. To ...
June 9, 2009
Appending
It’s quite possible that you have only one code per point on all your maps. If so, appending won’t be necessary and you can move onto Tables. Likely, though, you hav...
June 8, 2009
Tables
When you’ve finished digitizing all the information on your map sheets, you’ll have a bunch of codes—but what do they actually mean? To add such information to...
June 7, 2009
Quality Assurance
Now that you have finished the digitizing process, you will want to perform some quality checks on your efforts. Due to the repetitive nature of the process, even the best mappe...
June 6, 2009
GIS-GAMS Programmer (Durham, NC)
Organization: Climate Change Policy Partnership Location: Durham, NC Application Deadline: Posted: 2009-04-16
June 6, 2009
Two PhD Assistantships in remote sens...
Organization: University of Wisconsin – Madison Application Deadline: Posted: 2009-05-05 Position Description: Two PhD Assistantships in remote sensing and conservation b...
June 6, 2009
Consultant/Project Manager – La...
Organization: ESRI Location: Redlands, CA Application Deadline: Posted: 2009-05-05 Position Description: The Opportunity: Use your consulting and project management experienc&#...
June 5, 2009
Metadata
Metadata, or "data about data", is probably the least fun thing about GIS mapping. However, it can be the most important. Essentially, it tells the user what the point...
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