| Abstract: | ALACARTE offers a convenient way to compile geologic maps in the computer as spatial databases that can be used to prepare both cartographic images and analytic derivatives.
It is a menu-controlled shell, organized in geologic terms, that provides on-screen control of the program ARC/INFO, a commercial geographic information system (GIS).
Input can be from imported scans, digitizer tracing, or on-screen tracing or mapping with a mouse-controlled cursor over a digital topographic base, and interactive editing can be done on-screen using a broad suite of edit functions.
Compilations begun in other digital systems can be imported for completion as digital databases in ARC/INFO. The digital files that represent a geologic map can be used to prepare near-publication-quality color plots of the maps with full symbology or to create high-quality printing negatives. These files also constitute a digital database that can be used for computer-based query and analysis as well as for digital distribution of the map and associated data. |
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| Citation Author: | Wentworth, Carl M.; Fitzgibbon, Todd T. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Western Region Geology and Geophysics Science Center-Menlo Park |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | xvi, 268 leaves :ill. ;28 cm.; An Author‘s Retrospective on ALACARTE; Readme; |
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| Citation Public Comments: | Compilation of digital geologic maps and associated databases with ALACARTE, an easily used menu interface cast in geologic terms that controls ARC/INFO, a commercial geographic information system |
| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Citation Series: | Open-File Report |
| Citation Series Code: | OFR |
| Citation Series Number: | 91-587-C |
| Citation Search Results Text: | ALACARTE user manual; 1991; OFR; 91-587-C; Wentworth, Carl M.; Fitzgibbon, Todd T. |
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| Citation Year: | 1991 |
| Type: | citation/reference |
| Text: | ALACARTE user manual; 1991; OFR; 91-587-C; Wentworth, Carl M.; Fitzgibbon, Todd T. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1991/0587c/report-thumb.jpg |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1991/0587/ |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of91-587/ |
| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1991/0587c/report.pdf |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, |
