SOI Geospatial Terminology Register
SOI-GEOTERM · single multilingual register · v0.1
Content summary
Single multilingual register of geospatial terms for Survey of India / NIGST. Each concept has English plus optional Eighth Schedule language fills.
Concepts (15)
4.8cadastral parcel
area defined by cadastral registers and spatial units for land administration
engtam
4.7contour
line on a map joining points of equal elevation
eng
4.4coordinate reference system
coordinate system that is related to an object by a datum
eng
4.13digital elevation model
digital representation of ground surface topography or terrain
eng
4.1feature
abstraction of real-world phenomena
eng
4.3feature attribute
characteristic of a feature
eng
4.2feature concept
concept that may be depicted as a feature in a geographic dataset
eng
4.11gazetteer
directory of instances of a class or classes of features containing some information regarding position
eng
4.5geodetic datum
datum describing the relationship of a two- or three-dimensional coordinate system to the Earth
eng
4.14map projection
method of representing the curved surface of the Earth on a plane
eng
4.10metadata
data about data
eng
4.6orthophoto
aerial photograph or satellite image geometrically corrected so that the scale is uniform
eng
4.15scale
ratio of a distance on a map to the corresponding distance on the ground
eng
4.9spatial resolution
linear dimension on the ground represented by the width of a sample (pixel) of a digital image
eng
4.12toponym
proper name of a place or geographic feature
eng