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Rubber Sheeting

Last Updated: February 06, 2008

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Rubber Sheeting is a method used to adjust the coordinates of the data points in a dataset to allow a more accurate match between known locations and a few data points within the dataset. Rubber sheeting preserves the topology between points and objects through stretching, shrinking, or reorienting their interconnecting lines.

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