GIS Dictionary

[cartography] An indication of direction. One of the 32 divisions into which the circle around the needle of a compass […]

[symbology] A diagram of compass points drawn on a map or chart, subdivided clockwise from 0 to 360 degrees with

1 A widely used rule for adjusting a traverse that assumes the precision in angles or directions is equivalent to

[programming] A program used in software development that translates the lines of a programmer’s code from one programming language to

[ESRI software] In ArcGIS Tracking Analyst, a type of complex temporal event that includes two components and involves a moving

[ESRI software] In a geodatabase, a linear network feature that corresponds to one or more network elements in the logical

[ESRI software] In ArcGIS 8.3 and previous versions, a junction feature in a geodatabase that corresponds to more than one

[data analysis] An area calculated by finding the outermost customers of a store along several vectors and connecting them. Complex

[ESRI software] A type of complex temporal event in ArcGIS Tracking Analyst that includes two components and involves a stationary

[ESRI software] An event in ArcGIS Tracking Analyst that contains two components: one with persistent object information, and one with

[non-ESRI software] In COM, a binary unit of code that can be used to create COM objects.