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cross-reference database

See Also: PLTS data loader, schema

  1. [ESRI software] A database containing tables with information defining the mapping between a data source schema and an output geodatabase schema. Cross-reference databases are used by the PLTS data loader to batch populate a geodatabase from a variety of sources.