Book
Basic GIS coordinates
| Identifier | --janvansick-1745 |
|---|---|
| Penulis / Pengarang | Jan Van Sickle |
| Kata Kunci | Geographic Information System |
| Tanggal Publikasi | 04 Apr 2017 |
| Bahasa | Bahasa Inggris |
| Abstrak / Deskripsi | A fundamental change is coming. Two datums at the foundation of the current geographic information system (GIS) work will be replaced: the North American Datum 1983 and the North American Vertical Datum 1988. This book provides some of the information necessary to cope with that change. It is a book about coordinates. Coordinates? Press a few buttons on a computer and they are automatically imported, exported, rotated, translated, collated, annotated, and served up in any format you choose with no trouble at all. There is really nothing to it. Why have a book about coordinates? It is a good question really. Computers are astounding in their ability to make the mathematics behind coordinate manipulation transparent to the user. This book is not much about that sort of mathematics. However, it is about coordinates and coordinate systems. It is about understanding how these systems work and how they sometimes do not work. It is about how points that should be in New Jersey end up in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean even if the computer has done nothing wrong. And that is, I suppose, the answer to the question from my point of view. Computers are currently very good at repetition and very bad at interpretation. People are usually not so good at repetition. We tend to get bored. However, we can be very good indeed at interpretation, that is, if we have the information in our heads to understand what we are interpreting. This book is about providing some of that sort of information on the subject of coordinates and coordinate systems. |
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| No | Nama Berkas | Format | Ukuran | Aksi |
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| 1 | 2017 Basic GIS coordinates by Jan Van Sickle .pdf | application/pdf | 23,7 MB | ⬇️ Buka / Download |
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