SME
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) · Problem type
Vector or raster
Use this for “A county stores its road network and a satellite image of its land. Which should be vector and which raster?”
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Would you store this as vector or raster data?
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Ask whether it is a set of separate features or a value at every place.
Assumptions
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Vector data stores features with sharp edges as points, lines and polygons, each with a row of attributes.
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Raster data stores a value in every cell of a grid, for things that vary everywhere or come as images.
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