GIS Dictionary

[ESRI software] The condition of a tool upon closure. If a tool fails due to a programming bug or command […]

[ESRI software] An editing process that separates a multipart feature into its component features, which become independent features.

[mathematics] In mathematics, a number that indicates how many times a base value is multiplied by itself. Exponents are usually

[computing] To move data from one computer system to another, and often, in the process, from one file format to

[computing] To move data from one computer system to another, and often, in the process, from one file format to

[aerial photography] In aerial photography, each point in the flight path at which the camera exposes the film.

A sequence of operands and operators constructed according to the syntactic rules of a symbolic language that evaluates to a

[programming] In AutoCAD, extra optional data attached to an AutoCAD drawing element.

[ESRI software] In ArcGIS, an optional software module that adds specialized tools and functionality to ArcGIS Desktop. ArcGIS Network Analyst,

The minimum bounding rectangle (xmin, ymin and xmax, ymax) defined by coordinate pairs of a data source. All coordinates for

[ESRI software] A rectangle that is displayed in one data frame, showing the size and position of another data frame.