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TSD4.2
Archaeological Markup Language (ArchaeoML), version 0.9, February 2006.
Created by David Schloen of the University of Chicago.
Map document type.
A Map document stores information about a vector or raster map, plan, or section drawing.
Users may wish to display a given map in terms of a local, two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate grid. For this purpose, coordinates stored in UTM meters are converted using a scaling factor (= 1 if the local grid is also in meters), rotation angle in decimal degrees, and translations along X (easting) and Y (northing) axes.
Any number of three-dimensional conformal (similarity) transformations can be specified to allow automatic conversions from UTM map coordinates to other named coordinate systems.
Each such transformation uses a set of seven parameters: three translations along X- Y- and Z-axes, three rotation angles about X- Y- and Z-axes, and a scaling factor.
Note that rotation angles are specified in seconds of arc.
A map can have an optional georeferenced background image as an underlying layer. The resourceID must reference a TIFF, JPEG, BMP, GIF, or PNG image. The worldFileData contains the transformation parameters in ESRI world-file format (calculated using ArcGIS or some other tool) for georeferencing the image file into UTM meters (or into decimal degrees, if the map uses degrees instead of UTM meters).
A docID here must refer to a Set document, which corresponds to a map layer composed of all the map shapes that belong to items in that set.
Z elevations are stored as meters above mean sea level.
A docID here must refer to a MapShape document.
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