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To georeference something means to define its physical location using map projections or coordinate systems. This involves establishing the spatial relationship between raster images, vector images, or other geographical features and their real-world coordinates. Georeferencing is important for combining and analyzing data from different sources in geographic information systems and cartography.

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Geo Reference

To georeference something means to define its physical location using map projections or coordinate systems. This involves establishing the spatial relationship between raster images, vector images, or other geographical features and their real-world coordinates. Georeferencing is important for combining and analyzing data from different sources in geographic information systems and cartography.

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Georeference

To georeference something means to define its existence in physical space. That is,
establishing its location in terms of map projections or coordinate systems. The
term is used both when establishing the relation between raster or vector images
and coordinates, and when determining the spatial location of other geographical
features. Examples would include establishing the correct position of an aerial
photograph within a map or finding the geographical coordinates of a place name or
street address. This procedure is thus imperative to data modeling in the field of
geographic information systems (GIS) and other cartographic methods. When data
from different sources need to be combined and then used in a GIS application, it
becomes essential to have a common referencing system. This is brought about by
using various georeferencing techniques. Most georeferencing tasks are undertaken
either because the user wants to produce a new map or because they want to link
two or more different datasets together by virtue of the fact that they relate to the
same geographic locations.

Vector
Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves,
and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical expressions, to
represent images in computer graphics. "Vector", in this context, implies more than
a straight line.

Vector graphics is based on images made up of vectors (also called paths, or


strokes) which lead through locations called control points. Each of these points has
a definite position on the x and y axes of the work plan. Each point, as well, is a
variety of database, including the location of the point in the work space and the
direction of the vector (which is what defines the direction of the track). Each track
can be assigned a color, a shape, a thickness and also a fill. This does not affect the
size of the files in a substantial way because all information resides in the structure;
it describes how to draw the vector.

RASTER
In computer graphics, a raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a dot matrix data
structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color,
viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium. Raster images are stored in
image files with varying formats (see comparison of graphics file formats).

A bitmap corresponds bit-for-bit with an image displayed on a screen, generally in


the same format used for storage in the display's video memory, or maybe as a
device-independent bitmap. A bitmap is technically characterized by the width and
height of the image in pixels and by the number of bits per pixel (a color depth,
which determines the number of colors it can represent).

The printing and prepress industries know raster graphics as contones (from
"continuous tones") and refer to vector graphics as "line work".

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