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GIS Final Exam - 2
GIS Final Exam - 2
Institute of Technology
School of civil and water resource engineering
1. GIS is 'a set of tools for collecting, storing, retrieving at will, transforming, and
displaying spatial data from the real world? Which of the following functionality missed
out by the above definition
a) Analysis
b) Mapping
c) Re-projection
4. Which are reasons for wanting to project the Earth’s surface onto a plane, rather than deal
with the curved surface
a) This data type is more suitable for representation of the variation and processing
of continuous phenomenon
4. GIS differs from other information systems because they contain spatial data
5. Geodesy is a science of modeling the shape of the earth
6. Map projections– transformation of coordinates from a flat, paper map to a curved Earth.
9. Geodetic Datum is a set of measured or calculated points on the Earth and it provides a frame
of reference for measuring locations on the Earth or “places” the geographic coordinate
system on the ellipsoid.
10. An advantage of raster data storage is the smaller amount of data to be stored.
Bahir Dar University
Institute of Technology
School of civil and water resource engineering
Part C:Short Answer (3 points each)
10. What is the distinction between a discrete “map” and a continuous “map surface.” Give
some examples for each types of map.