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- DataMaps
- A digital GIS
map with built-in database that could produce variety of maps or mapreports
based on its database values.
Datamaps are models rather than maps in the sense that their representation
of the real world should be designed carefully to suit the application that
will be applied on the datamaps.
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- Datamapping
- The process of making datamaps; digitizing the map, fixing the
coordinates, building attributes database, populating databases, in addition
to all other mapping techniques, etc.
While the focus of conventional mapping is the drawing of maps with
proper coordinate systems, datamapping adds to it many of the careful
quality approaches common to the IT industry.
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process of datamapping is based on the design of the built-in database which
is a simple but essential process that precedes datamapping. Datamapping
editors and supervisors receives from the datamapping designer the Specs
sheets.
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- Datamaps/Geodatabase Analysis and Design
- Because
1) datamapping is a process that is labor-and time-consuming, and 2)
datamaps varies dramatically in their contents from one GIS application to
another, because of that the contents of Datamaps must be designed to
suit the application.
If analysis and design weren't done or even not done properly and
expectations weren't met in the end of the project, some redoing of the
entire datamapping project will be done.
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- Geoprocessing
- All sorts of processes that could be done in an automated way on datamaps.
Includes coordinates fixing of any map/image, automated fixing of databases
contents, building buffers or intersections, building contours, etc.
Normally is preceded by prototyping and detailed planning that is then
converted into sort of scripting to be executed.
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- MapReports (a.k.a. posters and maps)
- They're normal maps with additional sorts of information (e.g., tables,
charts etc.) that are printed using the contents of datamaps to
report on certain phenomena or projects results.
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- Specs Sheets
- Tracing, Editing, and Survey sheets are one of several designs in
which the designer conveys the design and some of the quality control
methodologies to the operators.
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