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Working Beyond Borders, GIS for Geospatial Collaboration. Edited by Jill Saligoe-Simmel, Maria Jordan.

Some real life examples:

York Region Data Coop, Ordnance Survey Ireland, GeoHive: Free Geospatial Data Hub | Tailte Éireann (Ireland), UGRC – Connecting clients (Uta), NC OneMap – Geographic Data Serving a Statewide Community (North Carolina), Cadastre system that monitors working lands on Azerbaijan, NebraskaMap, UAE Official Statistics And Competitiveness Data, Geoportál Praha.

Coordinate reference system (CRS) – a coordinate system that has been referenced to an object through describing the datum.

Coordinate transformations – we have data in one reference system and we wish to match it onto another system.

Coordinate conversion – we go between two different types of coordinate system that have been referenced to an object in the same way, and it is thus distinct from a coordinate transformation.

An extremely important and common class of coordinate conversion is the map projection. This is where we convert from an ellipsoidal coordinate system to a two-dimensional Cartesian one.

Two different methods of describing a point’s position – Cartesian and polar.

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