Vector to Raster Conversion

Vector to raster conversion
Automatic vector stamping
Stamp vector
Merge (High definition screen capture) ...

Describe raster to vector and vector to raster conversion.
What is the overall problem facing the industry regarding formats?
Why do we have so many types of data formats, and why are they so difficult to use together?
References ...

as discussed in an earlier Beyond Mapping column (November 2005; see author's note). Figure 1 summarizes the processing steps involved-1) a customer's street address is geocoded to identify its Lat/Lon coordinates, 2) vector to raster conversion is ...

See also: Vector, Conversion, Raster, Coordinate, Image