GIS Dictionary
Definitions for GIS terms related to operations such as analysis, GIS modeling and web-based GIS, cartography, and Esri software.
Now available for purchase: A to Z GIS: An illustrated dictionary of geographic information systems.
Search the GIS Dictionary:
GIS Bibliography
Researching GIS?
Search the GIS Bibliography for a vast index of books, journals, conference proceedings and reports.
point-in-polygon overlay
See Also:
line-on-line overlay,
line-on-point overlay
-
[spatial analysis]
A spatial operation in which points from one feature dataset are overlaid on the polygons of another to determine which points are contained within the polygons. 
