MAPPING CERTIFICATION QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS

ATTRIBUTE - A TRAIT, QUALITY OR PROPERTY DESCRIDING A GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURE. A FACT DESCRIBING AN ENTITY IN A RELATIONAL DATA MODEL, EQUIVALENT TO THE COLUMN IN A RELATIONAL TABLE ANNOTATION - THE ALPHANUMERIC TEXT OR LABELS ON A MAP SUCH AS A STREET OR PLACE NAME AZIMUTH - THE HORIZONTAL DIRECTION OF A VECTOR, MEASURED CLOCKWISE IN DEGREES OF ROTATION FROM THE POSITIVE Y -AXIS, FOR EXAMPLE, A DEGREES ON A COMPASS BASE MANUSCRIPTS - A SET OF TOPOGRAPHIC DATA DISPLAYED IN MAP FORM PROVIDING A FRAME OF REFERENCE OR CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION TO THE USER CADASTRAL MAP - A MAP SHOWING THE BOUNDARIES OF A SUBDIVISION OF LAND FOR PURPOSES OF DESCRIBING AND RECORDING OWNERSHIP AND TAXATION CARTOGRAPHIC MODELING - METHOD OF ANALYSIS USING MAP LAYERS WHICH REPRESENT VARIOUS GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF A GIVEN AREA. MAP ALGEBRA IS THEN USED TO PERFORM OPERATIONS ON THE LAYERS. THIS IS AN APPLICATION SPECIFIC APPROACH TO MAP ANALYSIS. DATASETS ARE DECOMPOSED INTO INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS, WHICH CAN THEN BE RECOMBINED TO FORM NEW DATASETS. IN THIS WAY ALL DATASETS USED ARE TREATED AS VARIABLES WITHIN THE PROCESS. (CARTOGRAPHIC MODELING IS EFFECTIVE IN GIS ENVIRONMENTS B/C THEY RELY HEAVILY UPON