Spatial Mapping and Sustainable Resource Management

In this chapter, you learn how to operationalise working in a GIS environment. After reading this chapter you should be able to understand the following: Data preparation for working in digital and GIS environments Choice of database for a GIS environment Geo-referencing or transforming scanned maps into real coordinate systems Spatial and non-spatial database creation Correction of spatial databases by editing features, edge matching, tolerance setting and topology building Creating a non-spatial database by adding and joining with a spatial database Linkage of GIS databases.