DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHY

What is digital cartography?

• Traditional maps display a geographical environment on a scale in statically

• Involves the creation and analyses of maps through the use of computers.

• Transformed into a form suitable for storage or plotting

• Data are changed back into graphic form

Peta yang dihasilkan melalui proses cetakan ( Hardcopy) merujuk kepada istilah bagi..

• PETA DIGITAL

• PETA MINDA

• PETA SOFTCOPY

• PETA GRAFIK

Computer cartography is also known as digital map­ping and automated cartography

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The automated cartography has four basic functional parts: digitizing, data processing, automatic drawing and reading

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Automated cartography is also known as computer-aided cartography

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CAC is stand for

• COMPUTER AIDED CARTOGRAPHY

• CARTOGRAPHY AIDED COMPUTER

• COMPUTER AIDED CADD

• COMPUTER AND CARTOGRAPHY

Phase of map production using CAC is except..

• Digitizing

• Processing Data

• Presentation Data

• Printing

Above are the advantage of digital cartography except

• Can be updated

• Can be reprinted

• Difficult to store

• Data is easy to carry anywhere

Disadvantage of digital map

• Image quality is good in any time

• Size of file and download time can cause problems

• Need a poor network to transfer file

• Digital map is cheap

Below are the methods for input data for digital cartography except

• Scanning

• Digitize on screen

• Sketching

• Keyboard entry