Before aerial photography arrived most maps were highly inaccurate by modern standards.
Rubber sheeting using gis.
Rubber sheeting is a useful technique in historical gis where it is used to digitize and add old maps as feature layers in a modern gis.
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Click the general tab.
Click the spatial adjustment menu and click options.
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Random geometric errors are corrected through a process known as rubber sheeting.
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Rubber sheeting is commonly used after a transformation to further refine the alignment accuracy of the transformed features.
Click rubbersheet for the adjustment method so you can set additional options for rubbersheeting.
Rubber sheeting may improve the value of such sources and make them easier to compare to modern maps.
Rubbersheeting may improve the value of such sources and make them easier to compare to modern maps.
Before aerial photography arrived most maps were highly inaccurate by modern standards.
For steps to transform features using affine or similarity transformation methods see transform features.
Rubber sheeting polygon collection into another using postgis.
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Rubbersheeting is used to make small geometric adjustments in your data usually to align features with more accurate information.
In rubbersheeting adjustments you are usually trying to align one layer with another that is often in close proximity.
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The source layer drawn with solid lines is adjusted to the more accurate target layer.
Click the spatial adjustment menu point to adjustment methods then click rubbersheet to set the adjustment method.
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Rubbersheeting is a useful technique in hgis where it is used to digitize and add old maps as feature layers in a modern gis.
Applications in history and historical geography.