Last modified: Oct 31, 2006
GIS Dictionary
This dictionary includes terms from GIS operations such as analysis, data management, and geocomputation; from rapidly evolving uses of GIS for modeling, GIScience, and Web-based GIS; and from the GIS foundation fields of cartography, spatial statistics, computer science, surveying, geodesy, and remote sensing. This online GIS Dictionary also includes ESRI software-specific terminology.
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[ESRI software] In ArcWeb Services, circles, lines, polygons, points, or markers that become transparent when not active. Acetate features are overlaid on other map layers and can be independently annotated.
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[cartography] A semi-translucent film base used for overlay and drafting in the traditional (manual) cartographic compilation process.
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