"A Practitioner's Guide to GIS Terminology" The following terms are condensed and reproduced with permission from "A Practitioner's Guide to GIS Terminology" by Stearns J. Wood, which contains more ...

(Data West Research Agency definition: see GIS glossary.) A map definition level of a virtual map. It describes the planning and operational areas used in daily municipal operations. Boundary lines ...

The total surface area of an object is the area of its base and the curved surface as well. Therefore, TSA = Area of base + Area of the curved surface The amount of space covered by an object is ...

A Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is a designation the U.S. government uses to refer to a region that, broadly speaking, consists of a city and its suburbs, plus any surrounding communities that ...

A Metropolitan Area Network, or MAN, is a series of LANs (Local Area Networks) that are interconnected through various means in a Metropolitan area such as a city and its subburbs. If a company has a ...