Designing geodatabases : case studies in GIS data modeling / David Arctur, Michael Zeiler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arctur, David, 1951-

Contributor:

Zeiler, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geographic information systems.

Information storage and retrieval systems--Geography.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Database design.

Database management.

Physical Description:

xi, 393 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Redlands, Calif. : ESRI, [2004]

Summary:

This guide to creating a dynamic GIS data model helps database managers design a schema that has comprehensive and descriptive query definitions, a user-friendly cartographic display, and increased performance standards. The five steps for taking a data model through its conceptual, logical, and physical phases, including modeling the user's view, defining objects and relationships, selecting geographic representations, matching geodatabase elements, and organizing the geodatabase structure are studied in detail. A look at nine decision points that deal with concerns common to all data modeling exercises, such as validating feature geometries, modeling linear networks, managing raster data, and labeling map features help database managers fine-tune their GIS data models. Several design models for a variety of applications are considered including addresses and locations, census units and boundaries, stream and river networks, and topography and the base map.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Geodatabase design 2

Chapter 2 Streams and river networks 36

Chapter 3 Census units and boundaries 86

Chapter 4 Addresses and locations 126

Chapter 5 Parcels and the cadastre 166

Chapter 6 Surveying federal lands 220

Chapter 7 Using raster data 280

Chapter 8 Cartography and the base map 306

Chapter 9 Building geodatabases 374.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

158948021X

OCLC:

55887420