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Definition: Digitizing
Category: UN - Geographic Information Systems
The process of translating geographic feature information on paper maps into digital coordinates. Digitizing usually refers to the manual process of tracing lines on a paper map attached to a digitizing table with a mouse-like cursor that captures coordinates and stores them in a GIS database. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/Handbook_Geo_Infrastr_Supp_Census_Activ.pdf
Source:
United Nations, "Handbook on Geospatial Infrastructure in Support of Census Activities", Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, Studies in Methods, Series F No. 103, New York, 2009
United Nations, "Handbook on Geospatial Infrastructure in Support of Census Activities", Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, Studies in Methods, Series F No. 103, New York, 2009
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