GIS Dictionary

[database structures] The third level of guidelines for designing table and data structures in a relational database. The third-normal-form guideline […]

[software] A process flow through an application. An application can have many threads.

[software] A software configuration in which three software applications (commonly a client program, application server, and database server) work together

In business analysis, an operation that creates rings that contain a given population around a store or stores on a

1 [graphics computing] A miniaturized version of a graphics file. A thumbnail can be used as a visual index for

[ESRI software] A registration or geographic control point for a coverage representing a known location on the earth’s surface. Tics

1 [symbology] Graphics that mark divisions of measurement on a scale bar. 2 [graphics map display] Short, regularly spaced lines

[geodesy] A vertical datum in which zero height is defined by a particular tidal surface, often mean sea level. Examples

[surveying] A point whose location is determined by a tie survey. [photogrammetry] A point in a digital image or aerial

[surveying] A survey that uses a point of known location on the ground to determine the location of a second

[geocoding] In geocoding, two or more records that yield the same score when matching an address.