Category: Location

Relative position

The position of one object in relation to another.

Relative positional accuracy

The degree to which the relative position of two objects agrees with their true or expected relative position.

Remote sensing

The acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without being in direct contact with it.

Resolution

The smallest distance between two distinct objects that can be resolved by a given sensing system.

Retail Foot Traffic

Retail foot traffic refers to the number of people entering and exiting a store, or the amount of foot traffic in a certain area. This metric is often used to gauge how successful a store is, or to determine where to place a new store.

Reverse geocode

The process of determining the street address or other geographical data associated with a given set of GPS coordinates.

Escala

The relationship between the size of an object on a map and the actual size of that object in the real world.

Scanned map

A map that has been digitized by scanning it with a high-resolution scanner.

Schema

A formal description of the structure of a database, typically expressed in terms of the relationships between different fields in the database.

Simple feature

A vector data type used to represent the geometry of a feature, consisting of a set of coordinates and optional attributes.