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weed tolerance

See Also: weeding

  1. [data capture] The minimum distance allowed between any two vertices along a line, set before digitizing. When new lines are added, vertices that fall within that distance of the last vertex are ignored. Weed tolerance applies only to vertices, not to nodes.