July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
358 pages
7h 17m
English
Map overlay is the combination of several spatial datasets to create a new vector output dataset. You can visualize this by stacking several maps of the same area. Another way to visualize this is to think of the Venn diagram overlay used in mathematics. There are three types of overlays – union, symmetric difference, and intersect overlay – that are used for different reasons, which will not discussed here as they fall outside the scope of this book:
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