Geospatial terminologies
ISO 19104:2016 — each concept is authored once, with English and any of the 22 Eighth Schedule languages filled on the same record. Same Google sign-in as the FCD module.
Concepts
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4.8cadastral parcel
area defined by cadastral registers and spatial units for land administration
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4.7contour
line on a map joining points of equal elevation
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4.4coordinate reference system
coordinate system that is related to an object by a datum
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4.13digital elevation model
digital representation of ground surface topography or terrain
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4.1feature
abstraction of real-world phenomena
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4.3feature attribute
characteristic of a feature
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4.2feature concept
concept that may be depicted as a feature in a geographic dataset
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4.11gazetteer
directory of instances of a class or classes of features containing some information regarding position
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4.5geodetic datum
datum describing the relationship of a two- or three-dimensional coordinate system to the Earth
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4.14map projection
method of representing the curved surface of the Earth on a plane
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4.10metadata
data about data
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4.6orthophoto
aerial photograph or satellite image geometrically corrected so that the scale is uniform
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